Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site of the exploratory holes, provincial geologists claimed the entire district for the Ontario government, to prevent land speculating. Chief geologist W. S. Dyer estimated that the newly discovered lignite could be profitably marketed at from $5 to $6 a ton, exclusive of freight...
...having gotten her with child. When she threatens blackmail, they scuffle. She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron. Her opponent then hides the body in a closet and begins a futile, agonizing pantomime of ease. Brought to trial between the acts, he is acquitted. His brotherly friends prevent him from suicide, dispel his remorse...
...will start by discussion for a third per cent ad valorem duty on imported birdseed. Taking the affirmative side will be Tom Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill...
Prohibition was a subject worthy of the public prints. "The Act of Parliament to prevent the selling of Gin, being to take place on Tomorrow, Mother Gin lay in State yesterday, at a Distiller's Shop in Swallow Street near St. James's Church; but to prevent the ill Consequences of such a Funeral, a neighboring Justice took the Undertaker, his Men, and all the Mourners into Custody...
...feel that by giving the small investor a chance to participate in the profits made in a sound enterprise is the surest way to prevent dishonesty and losses to those who can ill afford them...