Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That part of the fundamental philosophy of the New Deal which has come nearest to unanimous approval has been the resolve 'It must not happen again.' The determination to prevent the recurrence of wild booms and profound depressions has motivated some of the Administration's best work. . . . Now the Administration proposes a tax plan which, tosses overboard this sound philosophy. . . . The proposal is to prevent the accumulation of corporate surpluses by a prohibitive tax of about 33⅓%. The principle is unsound. It is analogous to levying a prohibitive tax upon individual life insurance premiums. Surpluses...
...expect the game to be played over; this would be impossible because most of the pontes have been shipped away from the Armory, but I do want to prevent this same thing from happening again next year...
From the point of view of the student, this is undoubtedly true. But the authorities cannot take the same attitude, that they have a right to let students on such a scholarship basis waste college funds and equipment. It is the duty of the authorities to prevent just this sort of waste in those who stay in college. It is this duty, owing to principles of self-education, liberty, and laisser-faire, perverted to mean indifference to the needs of a large proportion of the student body, which has been sadly shirked...
...Yearling class, two barges took the water, but Bert Haines, Freshman mentor, says he will not make up a first and second crew until he has had a chance to look over all possible aspirants in the Leviathan. This will prevent him from going out in the coaching launch until Thursday or Friday, and until that time a formal first boat will not be selected...
Because each Freshman was subjected to a barrage of questions, he naturally felt that obstacles were being put in his path, and that some malevolent hierarchy of officials wished to prevent him from majoring in the field of his first choice. The Committee's bark was worse than its bite, however, since everyone in good standing was admitted to his chosen field...