Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death-throes of the battle field. If the United States feels in a few years that the undeveloped resources in China are essential to her prosperity and Japan sees fit to disagree with her, a country jammed to the borders with peace-loving citizens will be unable to prevent a military clash...
...York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious, brief flashbacks, indicating the misery of the hackmen's conditions. When it turns out that Lefty has been murdered, the Group...
...wrong with the management and control of the railroads, so long as they know that their money has been used for improper purposes, so long as they feel that the facts have been kept from them . . . and so long as they feel that nothing substantial has been done to prevent the return of the railroads to men of the same type as those who have mishandled the roads in the past, just so long is the confidence of the American investor going to remain impaired. The way to restore confidence is to get the facts, to secure redress...
During last week's dust storm, which lasted four days (and in the heart of the drought district ran on for twelve consecutive days), police closed highways to prevent accidents. Airplanes were grounded. Schools and businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children and several adults were reported dead of pneumonia after breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great...
...still room for doubt in application to other fields of education but the high school. One cannot use clay models in college. But the report of the Institute of School Experimentation is conclusive proof that progressive education is on the right track. Let us hope that nostalgia won't prevent its advance...