Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gookin July 25, 1733 had a note to the Steward, to receive 20s for himself, and 10s apiece for Sam. Whittemore, Abraham Watson, Thomas Kidder, Wm. Morse, Tho. Soden, Nath. Cutter; for walking about near ye College, on Commencement day last in ye evening, and ye night following to prevent riots and disorders...
...been drinking one to two pints of whiskey a day for more than a week. Their digestive juices had no effect on hard-boiled eggs, "direct evidence," stated Dr. Blotner, "that large quantities of liquor taken over a long period of time destroy digestive enzymes and thus prevent the proper digestion and assimilation of food. Consequently a deficiency disease is produced." The disease: polyneuritis, which may progress so far that the drunkard continually walks as though stepping over obstacles, continuously talks of places and people he never...
...most interesting feature of this peak however, is the problem of getting through the range of mountains which surround it and almost completely prevent access to it. These peaks lie in an unbroken range of about 22,000 feet and enclose a valley or plateau in the center of which stands the single peak Nanda Devi...
...small importance. All that concerned the majority of the court was that such laws interfere with the so-called "liberty of contract" which is protected by the "due process" of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Liberty is taking on strange disguises indeed, when a state which tries to prevent an employer from exploiting women is violating the liberty of some sacrosanct individual...
...stenographer. Theodore Bilbo refused to testify against his friend, was jailed for contempt of court by Judge Holmes. Now Senator Bilbo saw his chance for revenge, set out to prevent Judge Holmes's confirmation by the Senate. He declared the nominee "personally obnoxious" to him, swore that Judge Holmes had jailed him for political motives. He brought before the Judiciary subcommittee the story of Pat Harrison's financial misfortunes in Gulf Coast real estate, charging that Judge Holmes had ratified the receiver's agreements by which some of Pat Harrison's debts to the defunct First...