Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pill is a bit hard to swallow at first. In turn these areas are subdivided into sections which contain similar fields of concentration presented in the same manner. The important change, however, is that the student must take six courses outside of any one section. This will prevent the student from taking too may courses in any one field in order to make sure of passing his general examinations in his Senior year. It will broaden the intellectual horizon of the honor student with a narrow viewpoint by forcing him to take more-courses in closely related subjects. Certain courses...
This new plan, although it is not nearly as comprehensive as that suggested by the Council Committee, will certainly tend to prevent the undergraduate from avoiding a broad education. It will force him to acquaint himself with the different types of academic approach: that of the humanities as well as that of science. Although it will affect only a small fraction of the students in every class, it will make it virtually impossible for a Senior to graduate from Harvard without a liberal education...
Another important aspect of the Eastern struggle for power seems to be China, where Japan is by no means a winner. Dr. Fairbank stated that one of the best things that the United States could do to prevent a Japanese aggression would be to send all we can to China in the way of military supplies, and Roosevelt backed him up by his own observations on China...
...prevent war millionaires," Congress in early October passed a bill providing that excess corporation profits should be taxed at least...
Nevertheless, he joins an underground campaign of socialists all over Europe to prevent war. Dismayed at the sight of socialist spokesmen backsliding into patriotism, he hopes to the last for a miracle, a general strike-something. But the war begins and he loses his life in a last, wild, hallucinatory attempt to stop it. Then Author Martin du Gard hurdles clear over the war to 1918, when Antoine, mustard-gassed in medical service and dying of abscessed lungs, lives just long enough to see the Armistice...