Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every feature the Report is sound. Reorganization of the undergraduate political structure would provide for sophomore, junior, and permanent class committees elected separately from slates composed by nominating committees, the latter to be chosen from the Houses and Union officers. "We have tried to prevent appointment to the Union Committee," the Report noted sharply, "from becoming a free ride into the marshalship." Streamlining of the Class Day program would suggest the assumption of Class Day financial burdens by the College in recognition of that institution's opportunity to "kindle a warm College loyalty in the minds of the Alumni...
Abolition of the "preferential and weighted balloting" now prevalent, careful supervision of sealed ballot boxes, and the placing of candidates' pictures on ballots are proposed, to prevent "a minority group" from electing "a man into office on a small number of votes by capitalizing on the failure of the large group of voters who is any case will not indicate their preferences...
...longest session in Council history saw two major projects, the Service Fund drive and the poll on wheat conservation, fall short of their goals and the Council took immediate steps to prevent recurrence of the same problems in the future, salvaging what it could from the present...
...prevent future service fund difficulties, the Council voted to institute a regular, continuous, and partially self-perpetuating committee, on the order of the Community Fund organization, to handle future solicitations to the fund...
...debate" was going on, the Communist paper L'Humanité pushed out an extra with two-inch headlines in red ink: "Alerte! Ils Veulent Assassiner la République!" The paper screamed that "the American party tears up the constitution. . . . Workers, democrats, patriots, you have the strength to prevent the crime ordered by the exploiters and imperialists of New York." Pouncing quickly, M. Schuman charged L'Humanité with criminal incitation to revolt. Police invaded the newspaper's plant, smashed the plates...