Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions of our fellow citizens. . . . On the side of recovery we have helped to lift agriculture and industry from a condition of utter prostration. . . . WTe have determined to safeguard these tasks by rebuilding many of the structures of our economic life and of reorganizing it in order to prevent a recurrence of collapse...
...people who cannot make a living in their present positions. Only thus can we permanently elimjnate many millions of people from the relief rolls. [In] some sections of the North-west and Southwest . . . many million acres of land must be restored to grass or trees if we are to prevent a new and man-made Sahara. 3) "I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against several of the great disturbing factors in life-especially those which relate to unemployment and old age. ... I believe that the funds necessary to provide this...
...starting date to Monday, Nov. 12-six days after the Congressional election. Under the terms of the bill the party in power could hire 105.000 men-250 to each Congressional district-and pay them $4 a day for two weeks to take the count. Nothing w?as to prevent the census-takers from being told by Democrats in advance that their appointments depended entirely upon their performance as votegetters on Election...
...quickly returned to their original bases. The Curie-Joliot work proved that theorists have a pretty accurate understanding of how the atom works. By-&-by an engineer may use the information to make a steam engine run more efficiently. Metallurgists may make better kinds of stainless steel. Physiologists may prevent rickets and tooth decay, treat cancer...
...talked of Dodds for Governor. "Nothing," says Harold Willis Dodds with this record behind him and Princeton's presidency in hand, "has ever happened to me." Almost the only color in his life is the mercurochrome he put on the fingers of Nicaraguan voters to prevent them from repeating at the polls. He was born on a small farm three miles west of Utica in western Pennsylvania, the summer home of his Presbyterian minister father.- In nearby Grove City (pop. 6.156), where his father had a pastorate and a professorship of Biblical Literature in tiny Grove City College...