Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skis with herringbone grooves on their bottoms to prevent sliding backward...
...charge of the rescue work. Airplanes, many lent by U. S., French and German air lines, were used to ferry food and medical supplies. Two British cruisers, in Chilean waters for a friendship visit, began transporting medical supplies, evacuating refugees and injured. Greatest need was for medical supplies to prevent the spread of tetanus, typhoid, check gangrene. From their Canal Zone base, two U. S. Army bombers roared south loaded with serums. From Chile's neighbor, Argentina, started a fleet of rescue planes and trainloads of supplies...
...water bag equipped with projecting fins to prevent burns...
Suppose you were plumped down in a big foreign city, and there you met a redheaded, respectable-looking girl who disclosed that she was all set to murder her faithless lover. Could you prevent the murder-without resort to police, intimidation, hypnosis or miracles...
...Neutrality Act ... is wrong in principle. We sell airplanes to France . . . because we want her to be stronger if attacked by a Fascist aggressor, but we refuse airplanes to Democratic Spain, which has already been attacked by two Fascist aggressors." Said Villard: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent our being drawn into war. . . . America must stay at peace. Who are we to set ourselves up to judge which side is right and which side is wrong...