Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large a number of tragedies. Part of the fault lies in the lack of co-operation between the immigration authorities and the American consuls who sign passports long after the quotas for their countries have been reached. Apparently no effort is made to investigate conditions beforehand, and so prevent the immigrant from starting on a useless, or worse than useless, pilgrimage. Consuls have even been reported as encouraging the journey when the slightest effort to obtain definite knowledge would have shown admission to this country to be impossible. Surely the foreign representatives of the United States should feel enough sense...
...further suggestion to offer. Would it not be possible for one or two members of the Undergraduate Committee to give some of their summer vacation to this work? With their personal knowledge of their classmates they would be of real assistance to the office and would to some extent prevent the appointment from becoming too haphazard...
...without an open session of the Armament Conference there were signs of impatience and suspicion among those who were eager for news of its doings. It seemed to some of these that decisions has been unnecessarily delayed, and to others that perhaps there were sinister influences at work to prevent any real decision whatever. This impatience, if not the suspicion, was natural even though not quite reasonable...
...could be kept in anything like constant use for mass meetings, or similar large assemblies. On the other hand, just that expanse of floor space could be used very advantageously, I imagine, for indoor athletics. Yet even a fairly intensive use of the space for athletics would not necessarily prevent the space from being turned to account for large assemblies, as often as university meetings of any sort might require it. The Y. M. C. A. buildings in many parts of the country have long depended upon their gymnasiums as meeting-places whenever audiences of unusual size have...
...prices invariably slump; keep them separate, and prices remain more nearly stable, This latter is exactly what the zone system aims to do. It will try not to put the small shopkeepers out of reach of reach of their patrons, a thing to be guarded against, but it will prevent them from spreading promiscuousy through the better districts. Certain groups of shops will be allowed even within some residential localities--mostly where small stores have congregated already--but these shops must stay en bloc. After all, the plan is not much different from the limitations at present placed on "restricted...