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Word: prevents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent the schools from tempting students with notes, the Advocate recommends University copyright suits against the schools to protect lectures, as well as publishers suits to protect text book material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Threatens Harvard 'Freedom' | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...easy to separate black from white," the editorial says. "No one wants to cut off from able and honorable students, graduate or undergraduate, the opportunity to earn money by tutoring that is innocent, helpful, and consonant with the Harvard emphasis on self-education. No one wants to prevent a student who neds help from getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Should Act Further Against Tutoring, Charges Alumni Bulletin | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects of the strike will continue to be evident in chart and index for weeks to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Slate Clean | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...idiotic to be anti-Fascist in America as it would be to start a movement to prevent Javanese temple dancing in Massachusetts. Javanese temple dancing is an elaborate and organized process of movement. The corporate state is an elaborate and un-American organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ezra Pound Knocks Economics And American History Staffs | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...Lancaster, Calif., Chinese Butcher Yackie Mun-choo was fined $150, forbidden to sell meat for two years. Reason: to prevent his hamburger from spoiling, Butcher Yackie embalmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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