Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement for liberty in India and Egypt, but such propaganda-by-action as the shooting of Vorovsky has done more for the East than it would be possible for the Third Internationale to do." Curzon was also cited as the chief " inspirator of the Entente effort at Lausanne to prevent a Russo-Turkish rapprochement...
This year the Board decided to make its action on all November records effective on November 23, and the same plan was followed at mid-years and April, and will be carried out in June. The purpose of the scheme has been to prevent differences in the length of the period during which men are disciplined as a result of low grades. To carry out this system of "Quarter Days" June 29 has been fixed as the day on which the Administrative Board will consider all final record cases and make effective its rulings...
...until the third set was well advanced did the University pair begin to play more in earnest, taking their service game in short order to bring the count from 3-5 to 4-5. It was then too late, however, for their half-hearted rally did not prevent the M. I. T. men from wining the next game and with...
...sphere and beyond his power will, in time, wear down the public's confidence in his judgment. Henry Ford is not so widely admired as he once was. Grant that a man is sincere in trying to do what he is not fitted to do, that will not prevent men mingling pity with their admiration. And pity, when too frequently aroused, is in danger of turning into a mild contempt...
...prevent ambitious...