Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down with the Legion of Decency and all other forms of pernicious busybodying. Such things serve only to emphasize as indecent what would otherwise pass unnoticed. In this free country a man ought to have a right to see a filthy show if he wants to. Preventing him from seeing it will not prevent him from being the kind of person that wants to. . . . Censorship, for all its misguided good intentions, is just another racket the people have...
...Pope frowns on all forms of contraception because they prevent the birth of children, prime purpose of Roman Catholic matrimony. A thoroughgoing realist, the Pope at the same time knows that many loving Catholics who fear to have children defy his pontifical frown. Therefore he decided that it is morally right and proper for Catholic couples to utilize the wife's monthly rhythm of sterility and fertility as a natural method of contraception...
...hour last night, or at least had let it slip by too quickly. Twenty minutes fast all morning, she sent students and professors askew. Colonel Apted and his men were fortunately able to convince her of her folly later in the day and the Colonel feels he can prevent her from going wrong again...
Declaring that the NRA was invented to prevent Congress from fixing prices hostile to the interests of big business, John T. Flynn, noted economist, prophesied the coming of dictatorship in this country in a speech last night in the New Lecture Hall...
Washington, Dec. 17--The administration is determined to prevent any "soak-the-rich" movement in the 74th Congress from reaching the point where it will cause another stampede by business and industry away from the New Deal, it was learned tonight...