Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Labor Relations Board this week told U.S. labor unions some of the things they can & cannot do on a picket line. In general they cannot try to prevent those who want to work from working. The unanimous rulings were the first of their kind under the Taft-Hartley law. Some of the new rules of etiquette...
...hysteria." Recently, however, observers who have sampled European opinion have found a growing tendency to face the possibility of war. Much of the war talk was still simply an expression of fear; many people, feeling cynically certain that the catastrophe was inevitable, had no notion of doing anything to prevent war, or to win "it, if it came...
Names and address will be asked on the ballots distributed to students. Identification is to prevent against ballot-box stuffing. All ballots will be destroyed after counting...
...such support. Although he has never before run for office, he has been a leader in local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...
First, "Birth Control" as commonly understood (indeed as defined by Funk and Wagnalls) connotes the use of artificial means to prevent either conception or birth. Birth-prevention, or abortion, is legally equivalent to murder. Conception-prevention is but a subtler means to the same end. Both forms of birth control employ unnatural means, and hence are against...