Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placed a definite restriction on numbers. It is evident, nevertheless, that she is meeting the same problem in a not so very different way. Yale, having set a certain number as the maximum, can choose from among the best candidates. Harvard, apparently, will set standards which will prevent more than the desired number from entering and thus be assured also of a high type of undergraduates. There is a difference of method, but the aim is the same. Along with this there is apparent an intention to enable boys to enter Harvard from schools whose curriculum is not specifically adapted...
...supposed to oppose this strike. But on June 26 there will be a convention of three anthracite districts. Brennan, the conservative leader in the Scranton district, faces strenuous opposition from the radicals. If the latter succeed in their plans it is thought that they will be strong enough to prevent a new contract and force a strike...
Eugene V. Debs, according to his own account, is " a citizen of the world," because he is deprived of United States citizenship by being a paroled convict from the penitentiary at Atlanta. That did not prevent Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, from booming Debs for the Presidency of the United States...
...value of a good reputation, and protects every man from libel, slander or unfair competition involving the use of a trade-name, it does not allow any man such an unqualified jurisdiction over his own name as Mr. Gump seems to believe. There is, for instance, nothing to prevent any scoundrel from changing his name to Andy Gump, with or without court sanction, and casting his new name into disrepute. And there is no reason why an author or playwright cannot use any name he wishes, if he does not undertake such uses with the intention of bringing disgrace...
...Company has built for the first time in United States aviation, a flying boat hull made entirely of duralumin. The use of this metal, which is as strong as ordinary commercial steel but only one-third as heavy, resulted in a saving in weight over wood, and will effectively prevent soaking of water and rapid deterioration which accompany wooden construction...