Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...
...prevent both discomfort and danger, Dr. Peckham advises, wear proper sunglasses-"the darker the better." Manufacturers are satisfied if their glasses cut out one-third of the light rays; some ophthalmologists now suggest cutting out as much as 80% to 90%. (The Navy issued some sunglasses which cut out 88%.) Dark glasses need not make it harder to see objects in bright light; they may help when much of the light is unnecessary. Advertising boasts of filtering out "harmful rays," says Dr. Peckham, are meaningless. Under ordinary conditions, he continues, infrared and ultraviolet rays, both invisible, make little difference; visible...
...regulations this year are designed to prevent the sexy posters which had to be taken down by college authorities last year and the year before. Nominees are also forbidden to spend more than $10 in their election drives...
...loyalty to the Red regime. In return, the bishops said, the Communist government had issued new decrees which were "an attack on the organization and life of the church." The bishops' letter concluded: "We cannot render unto Caesar that which is God's ... If, however-and God prevent it-a religious fight should arise from this our proclamation . . . there are enough people in this country of the Holy Martyrs who are willing to sacrifice everything for the right of God and religious freedom...
...devilishly clever plot. Posing as maintenance men, they are hatching schemes to frazzle nerves, and prevent undergraduates from getting their rightful hours of sleep. Their purpose is clear--to turn brother against brother, friend against friend, mankind against itself, to produce a reign of terror of REVOLUTIONARY PROPORTIONS...