Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth control, that "the Episcopal Church has taken a somewhat uncompromising view of the matter of depriving others of life - which is the express purpose of birth control" A resolution of the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference says in part: ". . . We cannot condemn the use of scientific methods to prevent conception, which are thoughtfully and conscientiously adopted." I should also like to challenge another statement which deprecates the sex act in marriage as a "sacrament of unity" by quoting the authority of the Book of Common Prayer, which says marriage ". . . is an honourable estate, instituted of God, signifying unto...
...stimulating production and foreign trade so that the Italians could earn their way in the world, so that they could keep a democratic government, so that they could contribute troops and weapons and bases to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Then I have seen us raise tariffs to prevent the Italians from selling us some of the very products we had urged them to make and export to us, so they could earn dollars to buy needed American products from...
Robert Ryan, Ernest Brognine, and John Ericson run the more conventional outlaw gamut, from ruthless leader to respectively brutal and sensitive followers. As the garrulous doctor and the besotted law officers, Walter Brennan and Dean Jagger convincingly exhibit the weaknesses which prevent either of them from acting against his criminal neighbors. A near catastrophe to the film's carefully constricted tone occurs when Anne Francis, as fresh and unnatural as a desert mirage, enters the scene. Fortunately, her role is slight and leaves no romantic blemishes...
...student that he is in serious danger of separation from the College. Students on probation may neither hold scholarships, compete for prizes, or represent the University. The measure is a just and effective instrument when used to correct academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front of their houses every night--an act that the University has, in practice, permitted for years--probation is degraded to a position slightly higher than a reprimand for jay-walking...
...world's biggest stock brakes, Winthrop H. Smith, disagreed yesterday with the recommendation by John E. Galbraith, professor of Economics, that stock buying should be put on an all-cash basic to prevent a repeat of the 1920 coach...