Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental effort to prevent another World War by reshaping the whole fabric of existing relations between the major European states was launched this week at No. 10 Downing Street, ten minutes after a black rainy midnight. The chiefs of Britain and France could not reach this momentous decision, or even get down to discussing it for eight solid hours at No. 10, without having first decided last week -for reasons of high policy-against fighting either for Czechoslovakia or with the Soviet Union, both treaty allies of France...
Last fortnight a similar and even prettier experiment was described by Dr. William Thalheimer of Manhattan, and Drs. Donald Young Solandt and Charles Herbert Best of Toronto, in The Lancet, British medical journal. They reported removing the kidneys from a dog, thus preventing him from excreting the nitrogenous poisons carried in his blood stream. Several days later, when his blood was filled with urea, they anesthetized him, connected an artery and vein to a vein and artery of a healthy, anesthetized dog. The small connecting pipes were attached to a specially designed pump which exchanged more than six quarts...
...duty of serving as the advocate of investors and of giving courts the benefit of impartial expert opinion. These advisory reports will also be sent to all investors involved. If necessary, a court may make SEC a legal party to reorganization proceedings. But SEC has no authority either to prevent or require adoption of a reorganization plan, no power to restore lost investments in such reorganizations...
...next sacrifice? Why have not Britain, France and the Soviet Republic plainly told Germany that she must 'keep off the grass?' This brave people of a democratic country must not be thrown to the wolves. This may be Europe's last chance to prevent another World...
...Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying "the difficulties which confront power companies, faced with competition from power projects which are heavily subsidized by gifts of Federal funds, compel us to work out some plan with you to prevent the destruction of our properties. . . ." Mr. Carpenter also wound up with a pious hope: that LCRA would stop urging Texas municipalities to build their own plants-for if Federal competition forced the big utility systems to take heavy losses from competition in some localities, it would be impossible for them...