Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without any doubt this standard will prevent Harvard from achieving fame in the Rose Bowl--a fact that is little to be regretted. We are here "to develop a broad cultural background" rather than to win a place in the Who's Who of athletic annals. The one is incidental to the larger purpose of the other...
There is every difference, the Swiss Government pointed out: 1) No 'tourist franc' has been created; 2) the actual Swiss franc remains fully convertible into gold; 3) the Swiss Government deplores the conduct of its hotelkeepers but is naturally helpless to prevent them from talking about a price reduction as if it were an innovation in exchange...
...open to criticism yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best: nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent us from contending with other colleges. The adoption of the Rugby game is a sufficient proof that we gladly recognize, the superiority of other rules even at the cost of giving up our own. We have played under these rules with good success, and we do not hesitate to recommend...
...present acts of abuse at rodeos will later pall, and more (there are lots of them) vicious displays will have to be introduced. Even after the laudable failure of a gang of American rodeoists in England last summer, the nation was so incensed that legislation was promptly enacted to prevent further invasions of shows that depended on cruelty and abuse...
...Democrats had to open ranks to admit a blackamoor into the party's Congressional organization. Since Democrat Mitchell's vote will count as much as anyone's in the election of a Democratic Speaker, he will be offered committee assignments, invited to party caucuses. Nothing can prevent his occupying a suite in the House Office Building along with white Representatives from Georgia and Alabama. He is entitled to eat with them in the House Restaurant, sit beside them on the House floor...