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Word: prevent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is worse, if lung-cancer death rates increase at the present tempo, 306,000 Americans will die of cancer in 1965. Can we prevent this from coming true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer: Up or Down? | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...plant, has suffered from the financial squeeze and the difficulty of attracting good teachers. Houses are jammed, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is under-enrolled, scholarship funds are badly needed to cover both present costs and the impending rise in tuition, and all these factors combine to prevent the undergraduate from learning as much as he might. As yesterday's editorial emphasized, the College must not increase its enrollment until it has conquered these inadequacies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Nation | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

...Yotre Sante. In Amarillo. Texas, determined to prevent her husband from having h's final Sunday bottle of beer, Mrs. Gertrude Camile drove her car through the saloon doorway, tore off 12 ft. of wall in a run that caused $1,000 damage to the bar. stepped out into the wreckage-strewn mess and clubbed him with a two-by-four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

With the rally crowd forecast at near-riot size, Matthew J. Toohey, the chief of the University police, has ordered 20 more men to be on hand to prevent a disturbance. He was confident yesterday, however, that "everything will be all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Crowds Anticipated At Princeton Rally Tonight | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

...successive outbreak of border violence. At best, a long period of continued friction and undiminished enmity between Israel and her neighbors lies ahead. But however illusory are the hopes for an end to Israel-Arab discord, the United States and the other great powers have an inescapable obligation to prevent the disaster of another Middle Eastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Road to Damascus | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

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