Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt was a sub-Cabineteer. Today Saito has his eye more fixedly on Franklin Roosevelt than ever. He knows that President Roosevelt's new Navy is the most potent afloat, that it is still abuilding. He knows that Washington wiseacres see this Navy as a net to prevent the Japanese carp from becoming so exuberant as to try an Eastward leap. Hirosi Saito's job is to convince the man in the White House that, at any rate, the carp will not permit the net to roil his own Asiatic waters...
Before freezing the guinea pig last week, Dr. Wiliard injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from clotting after the heart ceased beating. Next he put the creature, a soft, brown handful, into an asphyxiating chamber which he pumped full of ether and oxygen. When the guinea pig was unconscious Dr. Willard replaced the etheroxygen with carbon dioxide, and with that atmosphere slowly cooled the guinea pig until it was ice-hard. In that dead state the hard, brown handful remained several hours...
...major question which has any bearing on the future financial policies of the country was left deftly unanswered. For the most part the speech was devoted to a school-boyish recitation of the rise of the economic crisis and the sins of the Hoover administration in doing nothing to prevent it. But as for giving any reassuring words to the eager businessmen of the country, who would like to know the government's intentions concerning silver, further devaluation of the already stunted dollar, or proposed methods concerning the payment of the daily multiplying debt, the Secretary of the Treasury might...
...list. Then if the chain is unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes ($1,562.50). Chain letters fall afoul of the Postal regulations because if the chain is broken the participants are guilty of making promises they cannot keep. And there is nothing to prevent a sharper from making a handsome profit by mailing out 10,000 letters with his name at the top of each list...
Most famed of these Jacobite ladies was Flora Macdonald, who risked her life more than once to guide the Prince to safety, dressed him in women's clothes and passed him off as her maid. Her loyalty did not prevent her marrying later and becoming the mother of ten. When Johnson and Boswell made their tour of the Hebrides they visited her, and she and the old lexicographer hit it off from the first. His typical tribute to her was inscribed on her tomb: "A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues...