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to stop (something from happening)
- "Well, gosh almighty, there's nothing to prevent your reading books and going to lectures and all that junk, is there?"Chapter 30 (54% in)
- The Rev. Dr. Drew, his rustic bang flopping with the intensity of his poetic and sociologic ardor, trumpeted: "During the untoward series of industrial dislocations which have—let us be courageous and admit it boldly—throttled the business life of our fair city these past days, there has been a great deal of loose talk about scientific prevention of scientific—SCIENTIFIC!Chapter 27 (28% in)
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