Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pacifists were hopeful, since in the Gondra Convention of May, 3, 1923, signed between Bolivia and Paraguay, there was contained a procedure of conciliation designed to prevent war between them. There was actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent...
...academic excellence is not so great that it should be accorded only twice a year, and it may be so valuable, properly used, that more students should enjoy it, for however slight a time, whenever they qualify in their courses. Such temporary elevation in standing needs careful guard to prevent its abuse; perhaps it was this knowledge that led the authorities to require consultation with the assistant deans before employment of the privilege...
...wouldn't like the scheme. Even if they hit only once in six trips to the plate they have a human desire to crack something. They want to get back at the other pitcher for all the hits that have whistled past their ears. Although the proposal does not prevent the pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from the batter...
...Permanent Secretary, two for the Permanent Class Committee, seven for the Class Day Committee, and five for the Album Committee. If a voter does not check the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that particular position will be discarded, in order to prevent errors in the counting of votes. All ballots in order to be considered must be signed by the voter and checked in pencil...
...Congai is reputed to contain a tragic significance. A half-French-half-native girl (Helen Menken) would rather be alone in the jungle with her native lover and their native child than have 100,000 Frenchmen at her feet. Circumstances, however, again and again prevent the fulfillment of her life wish and she ends up as the best congai of Indo-China-the congai of the French governor...