Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Plan inevitably raises distinctions between the upperclassmen and the newcomers. This may be as it should be. But it is certainly unnecessary and undesirable to extend the line of demarcation so far as to prevent simple sociability...
...there is too much coincidence of aim. The Association is obscure because its main purpose is to assure fair play for its constituency. Since there is little occasion to struggle for this precious possession at Harvard, the Association has won neither fame nor notoriety. Anyway, its function is to prevent unfair discrimination against professors and to assure them of proper salaries, retirements, and appointments. It also concerns itself with problems of administration and curriculum, and publishes a useful magazine. But these activities are secondary. And since the field into which the main activities fall is a small one at Harvard...
...given for very brief periods of time may prove fatal. Discontinuance of the drug upon the appearance of even the slightest symptoms does not ensure a favorable outcome. The first symptom usually recognized is jaundice, and withdrawal of the drug at this stage even with appropriate therapy does not prevent a fatal termination in approximately half of the cases...
...release from prison after this scandalous affair made him a popular hero, since it was considered a triumph over arrogant nobles. His pamphlets and the success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa of Austria when he tried to blackmail her with a pamphlet relating that her daughter, Marie Antoinette, would bear no legitimate children. His intrigues became historically important when...
...city editor of the Aurora (Ill.) Evening Post. A few years later found him in Chicago, working for a firm of investment counselors, editing the financial section of the Chicago Tribune. With the failure of Moore Brothers in 1896, in a situation ripe for panic, he was able to prevent the news from being handled in a sensational manner, won the favorable attention of financiers. As an assistant secretary of the U. S. Treasury in McKinley's administration, his work in connection with Spanish-American War bond issues gained the notice of James Stillman, who made him a vice...