Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read about your strikes. You people are allowed to strike-we aren't. Well, nobody can prevent us from coming down here and not working. And what would you do if some day we didn't come...
...been yearning ever since His Yin-state became complete, but which it was impossible for God to accomplish by Himself, out of His own perfection. And the Devil has done more for God than this; for, when once Yin has passed over into Yang, not the Devil himself can prevent God from completing His fresh act of creation by passing over again from Yang to Yin on a higher level. . . . Thus the Devil is bound to lose the wager, not because he has been cheated by God, but because he has overreached himself...
...scored 32 points against the Crimson last Saturday to defeat Coach Bill Barclay's team almost single-handed. Lavelli, with 175 points in 11 league games, needs 16 points to tie Columbia's Walt Budko for the league's individual scoring laurels. George Hauptfuhrer will do his best to prevent any such eventually...
...attention to the biggest job with which any organization has ever been confronted. It must prove to millions of skeptics that the dangers of an atomic war in a few years are so great that only such a departure from the present philosophy of diplomacy and international cooperation can prevent it. The stakes are the highest possible: human lives. Anything less than full participation in the discussion of this issue by every thinking American would be the most foolhardy form of indifference...
Harvard College does not pretend to possess a perfect grading system. Essay type examinations cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the number of complaints from students who felt they had been victimized by methods somewhat less than just indicates that unfairness in the grading system has not been reduced to the unavoidable minimum...