Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summoned to go out with a vision of a new world bright before our eyes that there is one who can make that new world possible, but that upon us rests a mighty responsibility to wage eternal warfare against those forces which are seeking to prevent the coming of that new world...
...last an agency has sprung up to prevent as well as punish this fraudulent promotion. Urged on by men like Governor Morse of the First District Federal Reserve Bank and startled by the statement of the Senate Committee on Reconstruction that the annual losses through worthless schemes can be conservatively estimated at more than a billion dollars a year, bankers established the Better Business Bureau last summer. Working through branches located all over the United States, this bureau has already exposed a number of "blind pools" which have absorbed the savings of thousands of ignorant and gullible persons. A product...
Rutgers was denied complete admission because the members of the Southern Division held that this would prevent the admission of Princeton, which would be more desirable. The representatives from Yale and the University expressed the wish that Princeton join the Northern Division, but the southern colleges were opposed to the formation of any such combination as exists in football...
...judge by the letter of the criticism employed by those who would change Boston's school books. A far graver side of this concerted agitation is seen when we reflect that if Messrs. McSweeney, O'Connor, Prout, Walsh and Watson are to have their way, there is nothing to prevent one good textbook after another being tossed out of the Boston schools on the ground that their unhappy writers have not said that perfection was copyrighted in the thirteen States and more especially Massachusetts. Mr. O'Connor is reported in the Boston Herald as having expressed himself to the effect...
...preliminary season makes not the slightest difference. It is worth while to remember that since the war Harvard has tied Princeton twice and been beaten once. I say that Harvard "tied" Princeton advisedly because that was about what happened. Harvard had to come from behind to prevent defeat...