Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light no treasures of gold and skillfully worked jewelry. There will be discovered no intact furniture and no completely preserved mummy of a great pharaoh. The Egyptain government, warned by the world fame and furor caused by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, has taken every precaution to prevent the story from coming to the public through the press. Egyptain newspapers have been forced to keep absolute silence and very little has come to the press in Europe and America...
...subcontinent. The great majority of the Indian rajahs and native princes are more of a detriment than an aid to their people and it is a mistake to suppose that the opposition which might be offered to a policy of general dethronement would be such as to prevent the movement from being carried out. The Indian native rulers squander the wealth they gain by force from their subjects in performances of a highly Sybarite nature...
...second aim of the League, it seems to me, is projected as much by selfish as altruistic motives. A very strong League could completely prevent turbulence in the smaller powers but it would at the same time quell all individual enterprise in the smaller states and turn them into gaming grounds and milchcows for the major nations of the League...
...choosing of judges, promises to share the expenses of the Court, asserts the right of withdrawal, requires that all advisory opinions be public, and none rendered touching the United States without its consent. A nation sitting in the League Council can, because the Council functions by unanimity, prevent any request for an advisory opinion. The last reservation but secures an equal power to the United States...
...Haven, Conn, January 27. The greatly increased costs of recent years have caused the authorities of Yale University to announce an increase in its undergraduate tuition charge from $800 to $850. The announcement also added that additional appropriations would be made to prevent the increase from adding to the financial burdens of the self-supporting students, who now comprise one third of the undergraduate body and are receiving aid from the University to the amount of $971.303 a year...