Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written, the New York Times published the announcement of his death. . . . "The play is to be considered a celebration rather than a representation. I have called it 'Yellow Jack - a History.' The subtitle is pretentious and I have used it in the hope that it will prevent people from telling me that it is not a play...
...forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked for a landing place. When the white ground reached up for him out of the white void, he flipped off his ignition to prevent a fire...
...steady disappearance of coats and hats from the coal-rooms in the various Houses and at the Union, and the disappearance of belonging even from the students' rooms make it necessary that more efficient methods be used to prevent Harvard's annual epidemic of petty larceny...
...board is empowered to prevent any person engaging in any unfair labor practice that burdens or affects commerce or obstructs the free flow of commerce or has led or tends to lead to a labor dispute that might burden or affect commerce or obstruct the free flow of commerce...
...Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum-dwellers can pay. That this objection is valid seems to be granted by the National government, who in their nascent proposal along these lines are said to have included a decree to prevent overcrowding in neighboring tenements--implying that ht maximum limit of inhabitants per square foot of rooming space will be made necessary by the flood of dispossessed tenants who cannot afford the rents of the model housing. This has been the experience of every major city which has ever tried slum...