Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not engaged in interstate commerce. The oil code is, however, a specialized case which chiefly concerns not General Johnson but Secretary Ickes who last week promised a swift appeal to the Supreme Court. 2) NRA was supposed, by limiting hours of work per man, to cure unemployment and prevent a dole but has not. Despite all General Johnson's claims last autumn of the millions and millions of men put to work by NRA, unemployment has remained a big problem all winter, is still waiting solution. The last A. F. of L. unemployment figures stood...
...France will not disarm as a bribe to prevent Germany rearming...
...plan, but I would like to offer some constructive criticism. Why could not a series of contests be organized between departments--contests not only for the tutees, but also for the tutors? There could be, say, four departmental examinations taking place on the stage at the same time. To prevent collusion, the tutors instead of questioning their own tutees would examine each other's: thus a Chemistry tutor would question a concentrator in History, a Mathematics tutor, a tutee in Govt, etc. After their own examinations the tutees could be allowed to question a Fine Arts tutor in Bio-Chemistry...
...from the jungles of Guatemala Joan Lowell (The Cradle of the Deep) brought a 6-year-old half-Indian boy named Marino Valdez. She averred that hostile Indians had captured Marino Valdez, cut off his right hand because he was an "infidel'' (or because they wanted to prevent his ever bearing arms), abandoned him to the jungle, where she found him while shooting films. She said she planned to adopt the waif legally in Manhattan, train him for the diplomatic service...
...Mussolini wants to be friendly towards Hitler, and at the same time he wants to prevent Hitler from annexing Austria. he has helped as best he can both Hitler and Starhemberg to gain control of Germany and Austria respectively. And now he awaits the results of the victories of his proteges. He is like a cat who has given berths to two tigers...