Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell's letter asserted that the embargo is "practically hostile to the belligerents that control the sea" and further stated that no neutrality legislation could "absolutely prevent the possibility of events that might cause our citixens to regard war as less evil than the alternative presented by some belligerent...
Feeling "that the pacifists have a strong case and an eminently practical way to prevent war," an organization committee of six students has arranged for a meeting at, 7:30 o'clock tonight in P. B. H. for all persons who are interested in forming a permanent organization to promote the pacifist cause at Harvard...
Bacteriologist Pittman was not completely satisfied, urged that sulfapyridine be given "further trial." Her experiments had shown that "[sulfapyridine] did not prevent the bacteria from entering the bloodstream, but it apparently retarded their increase in the blood...
...week, before the Government's Committee for Reciprocity Information at Washington, Arthur Besse made an earnest plea: 1) terminate all Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...
...poets. Plutocrat Amy Lowell charmed him by providing her guests with bath towels to spread across their knees in defense against her 17 slavering sheepdogs. In Rapallo he found a note at his hotel from Ezra Pound: "The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn't prevent us from having a vermouth together...