Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Conant has shown meticulous responsibility in caring for the ideal of free speech. Chicago's Dr. Hutchins appears to better advantage as a defender of even more important ideals: "There is no such inevitability about war with the Axis as to prevent us from asking ourselves whether we shall serve suffering humanity better everywhere by going into this war or by staying out. . . . I hold that the United States can better serve suffering humanity by staying out." Massrs. Conant and Hutchins are equally valiant guards of the best in American universities, but as a formulator of national policy...
...electors of all other States could have voted for such tickets. So, technically, the Constitution does not prevent the election of a President and Vice President from the same State...
...Hitler victory, says, the other side, would be so colossal an evil that it would be worse than anything in the way of war which would be likely in the to happen to us if we exerted ourselves now to prevent that victory. Between these two views there can be no scientific or rational decision; neither the evils of any war in which we might in fact become involved nor the evils of a Hitler victory are exactly measurable; they are not even exactly foreseeable...
...inauguration of the President will be a rather dull one as far as music is concerned, because ASCAP has possession of all of Sousa's best marching songs. CBS and NBC are building soundproof broadcasting units along Pennsylvania Avenue in order to prevent any music from going out over the air. God Bless America, the new national anthem, will not be heard at all until this argument is settled...
Back in the good old days, Harvard used to chain its library books to the shelves, to prevent over-prehensile undergraduates from making off with the volumes. Yesterday the librarians in Lowell House decided it was time to resume the custom...