Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Probably there will be no contention made but that the Government ought to prevent injury to itself by prohibiting and punishing words which result in anarchy or crime. Whether the Government should go further and say that it will prohibit and punish the utterance of words which may possibly so result is another question, and it is the question which Harvard and Washington are going to debate...
...death-letter' to send away. But he also wrote a letter to himself,--a sort of diary--which took the form of verse. Then again in the long waits in the trenches and during his hours of rest he had to have something to occupy his mind, something to prevent him from brooding or going insane...
...claimed a reduction. In these days of the ubiquitous income tax receipt, it is not hard to discover the average man's financial resources. But even in default of this, rebates might be made proportional to other college expenses. A combination of the two methods would certainly serve to prevent well-to-do boys "with the commercial instinct strong within them," as the "Quadwrangler" puts it, from trying to beat the college down...
...There is no greater question before the world today than how long supposedly free peoples are going to allow their governments to interfere with freedom as if we were still at war. That interference is doing every possible kind of harm. Among other things it continues to prevent the constructive forces in Russia from finding their own way, to solve their own difficulties...
Tomorrow the crews will row early, and the University A and B will go out at 12.15 o'clock for a race in the basin. That afternoon the shells will be shipped--provided strike conditions do not prevent it--and will be ready for use on Tuesday morning when the crews will arrive at Annapolis. The crews will stay together in and around Cambridge over Sunday, and will row twice Monday, before taking the train that afternoon. If they arrive in Annapolis early enough Tuesday morning they will row that afternoon, and twice a day for the rest...