Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...duties at the United Nations will prevent Madam Vijaya Pandit from appearing at tonight's Law School Forum, it was learned yesterday. Professor M. S. Sundamar, Educational Secretary of the Indian Embassy, is taking Madam Pandit's place...
Bitter cold and snow flurries did not prevent Lloyd Jordan from scrimmaging his varsity eleven outside for 35 minutes yesterday in a closed practice session...
This lack of spirit, according to the report, comes from several things: 1) poor lighting on the field, 2) schedule conflicts with varsity games which prevent sizable attendance, 3) lack of a training table, 4) other matters such as an admission charge to games, playing on the practice field and performing away when the varsity is out of town, all of which tend to prevent people from watching freshman games. The report goes on to suggest remedies for each of these problems...
...France and Gainsborough in England, all devoted 'themselves to the depiction of pomp and pleasure. Goya did, too, but he painted pompous fools and smirking harlots. He was as harsh and realistic a portraitist as ever lived (and sometimes a surprisingly offhand one), but that did not prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked as the emperor in the fable of the "Emperor's New Clothes," stripped down to essence, strutting and stupid under their...
...supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want to be identified...