Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers to pay only the old rates when they got their bills from the water company. When the water company shut off the supply, he argued that the company had no right to deprive citizens of a vital necessity. Susquehanna citizens took to standing on shutoff boxes to prevent water company agents from closing the valves...
Editor Baker lives in a house owned by Vice President Walter Edgar Bennett of the water company. When his landlord had his water supply cut off, because he failed to pay his bills in full, Editor Baker turned it on again himself, hired three guards to prevent agents from turning it off without court authority. The water company got an injunction against Editor Baker's guards but the Transcript kept on with its campaign...
...they divided them among themselves. The contracts were then awarded to these companies in direct violation of the Act of June 8, 1872, which provides that "No contract for carrying the mail shall be made with any person who has entered or proposed to enter into any combination to prevent the making of any bid for carrying the mail," and "if any person so offending is a contractor for carrying the mail, his contract may be annulled." Since representatives of every company carrying the air mail were at these conferences, Mr. Farley had no choice in the matter; under...
This is rendered more likely by the fact that there is really nothing the powers can do to prevent Nazilsm from establishing itself as the actual government in Austria, providing no attempt is made to achieve the Anschluss by actually joining the two countries together. If this should occur and a Nazi government be set up either by the Germans independently or with the aid of Dolifuss--nothing short of military occupation of the country could prevent the Austrian government from cooperating with Berlin in such a way as to make the Anschluss effective in all but name. Thus...
...called attention to a very real defect in the educational system at Harvard, in the lack of sufficient individual attention and advice from members of the Faculty to students when it is most needed, i.e., during the Freshman year. Lack of time, lack of interest, sometimes lack of knowledge prevent Freshman advisers from performing any but a purely mechanical function. The problem is first to get advisers thoroughly acquainted with the individuality of each advisee, and second to get them to use that knowledge to guide every Freshman into the field of endeavor most suited to his interests and abilities...