Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your World War section is fine! How about an article pointing out what an equitable solution to the European situation would be-given an Allied victory? How to prevent a World War III? It stumps...
...purposeful quietude. Having called Congress into special session (see p. 12), Franklin Roosevelt had no wish prematurely to provoke the mobilizing forces of Isolation. Idaho's formidable Borah was no adversary to be wantonly aroused. The President stepped as delicately as Agag. Meanwhile, he tried to prevent Republicans from forming a solid front against his foreign policy: to his councils this week he summoned Alf M. Landon and his 1936 running mate, Publisher Frank Knox, as earnest that the White House was prepared to practice national unity, whatever isolationist Republicans in the Senate might...
...worthwhile extra-curricular activities for Freshmen, will begin on Wednesday, September 27, at 1.30 o'clock in the Varsity Club. This competition offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but affords them a chance to get acclimated to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life...
...announcing that Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare entitled Britain to retaliate, and by solemnly adding that "no blockade of Germany in the formal sense of the term has been declared." It was to be simple strangulation: thoroughgoing, but informal. The idea was, not only to prevent anything helpful from reaching Germany direct, but to "ration" Germany's neutral neighbors so as to make sure no helpful surpluses would spill over their borders into Hitlerland...
...ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance of blankets and hot water bottles to prevent chill; 3) plenty of warm, sweet tea to restore a proper water balance; 4) blood transfusion to avoid blood poisoning; 5) operation as soon as the patient comes out of shock...