Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant as showing that the men who enter college nowadays, with rare exceptions, come to college with clean and wholesome bodies. There are compulsory physical examinations also for candidates for teams, and other students may have such examinations if they wish. The professor of hygiene has the power to prevent any man from playing on a team if his physical condition makes it unwise; and he has a control over the health of the students that no university official had prior to the past decade. He has brought about the regular sanitary inspection of the University dining halls, the small...
...Mark Hanna. "Mr. Hanna was furious at what I had said about him and he determined that he would have revenge! My term in the Senate would expire in 1901, and Mark Hanna made up his mind to prevent my reelection. Mr. Hanna raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota. ... I was very badly beaten in the election...
...revenge. They got up a movement to impeach Mr. Daugherty for malfeasance in office, but it collapsed without proving a single charge against him. Still they kept up a guerrilla shop strike on many roads and fought the issue with the best legal talent at their command, hoping to prevent the Attorney General from making the injunction permanent. Now-just as their case was about to be heard-the lawyers for the shopmen have run up the white flag and withdrawn from the case, thus allowing it to go by default...
...back. The second is backed by those people who openly advocate the return of King Otto to the throne. They say: " Since that is our will and intention, why should we seek to hide it-especially since there is nothing in the Treaty of Trianon to prevent a Habsburg reascending the throne of Hungary?" The third group, including the Government of which Count Bethlen is Premier, unofficially support King Otto, but believe that a regency (with Admiral Horthy as regent) is the only course the country can adopt in view of the anti-Habsburg attitude of the Little Entente. There...
...riding heroine resembles successive window displays at Abercrombie and Fitch's and Bedell's. The plot is concerned with the cruel villainies of a pair of French Canadians attempting to mulct the poor girl of her rightful inheritance in timber lands. The hero arrives in time to prevent the mulcting. There is a fight which spatters blood all over a perfectly good chateau and a good job in bridge dynamiting. The rest of the action is adequately exciting...