Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British law intervened last week to prevent the King-Emperor from reading an account of the affairs of his best known subject. Of the subject Mme. Sarah Bernhardt once said: "He is the greatest of all pantomimics." Yet Parliament recently passed a law (TIME, Dec. 20) forbidding the publication of sensational divorce details. Therefore though George V., R. I., may have read the London papers never so carefully last week, he read only half a dozen sentences about the cause célèbre precipitated last week by an 18-year-old girl who was studying...
...passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be comfortably disposed on furniture, window sills and floor. Then cigarets are borrowed, matches found, pipes gurgled clean, and someone arranges the windows and door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying type-sizes and occasions, the search is brief and successful. A hush falls. Some one takes his last cough. "Copey" waits...
...enough men sign up for the Weld golf Course, there will be no lack of facilities to prevent a golf team, and it has been suggested that a check on attendance could be made by giving men slips to the punched upon their arrival at the course...
...star of the recent Columbia meet and W. A. Clomentson '28, regular 135 pounder, Lifrak, who in a six minute overtime threw his Columbia opponent to the mat for a decision of 1:51 minutes and scored his team's only points, has sustained bodily injuries which will prevent him from filling his regular berth in the 145 pound event. It has not been definitely decided who will substitute for the rugged little matman. The position will either go to G. M. Cushing '28 or C. C. Corson '28, it was announced last night by Coach Lewis...
...passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be com- fortably disposed on furniture, windowsills and floor. Then cigarets are borrowed, matches found, pipes gurgled clean, and someone arranges the windows and door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying type-sizes and occasions, the search is brief and successful. A hush falls. Some one takes his last cough. "Copey" waits...