Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several veterans of last year's team, including Captain A. J. Conlon '22, George Owen '23, H. C. Janin '23, and several promising players from the 1924 team will be unable to report, because they are now out for football, but this will not prevent Coach Slattery from devoting a good deal of attention to the practice. He is especially desirous that the pitchers should have this opportunity for extra work...
...class solidarity, or so-called internationalism, there were few men who failed, when the war came, to take the part of the nation to which they recognized that they belonged. There had been an expectation that the socialists in Germany would refuse to support their Government and thus prevent war; but when the war came, that did not happen. In some cases, as in Alsace-Lorraine for example, the people, or many of them, did not consider that they belonged to the country that held sway over them; but that is another question, the question to what nation patriotism...
...None of the prose writers have mastered certain difficulties. If the story is to be a short one, of necessity the laying of the scene is to be briefly done. The writer is lured into generalities and then, only the nicest discretion in a choice of particularization's will prevent an impression of amputation of the parts of an otherwise perfect whole. In order to avoid this amputation, net only must the detail permit the generalization, but an ill-chosen adjective will irritate as well...
Duane and Feibleman removed all chances of a Tech victory by capturing their doubles contest from Cauldwell and Scott 6-1, 6-2, but it remained for Fenno and de Turenne to prevent the M. I. T. players from tieing the score. This last doubles match brought forth the best playing of the day and it took the University men three sets to win from Brockman and Carver...
...wage-earners ordinarily engaged in construction work, led to the organization of the Building Guild, so called because of its great resemblance to the trade combinations of the days before the Industrial Revolution. The members have done away with the hampering regulations of the modern unions, which for instance, prevent a carpenter from doing the work of a bricklayer, and have subordinated all petty distinctions to a single idea,--co-operation in the interest of efficiency...