Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent a disaster...
...World War II, Tokyo painted some buildings black to confuse Allied bombardiers. Last week, in one of those buildings, the Foreign Ministry, the Japanese took note of another threat from the skies. Japanese diplomats formally asked the U.S. to prevent "foreign military planes" from crossing Japan's frontiers. In a news release, the Japanese warned "the foreign power concerned" to stay away, left no doubt that they were referring to Soviet Russia, whose planes have been flying over northern Hokkaido for months. To the fighter pilots of Major General Delmar Spivey's Japan Air Defense Force went...
...tightening up of bank credit. Eight of the twelve FRB banks immediately boosted from 1¾ to 2% the interest rate at which member banks may borrow money from them. By thus putting a light brake on borrowing, the FRB sought to tighten the money supply, thereby help prevent any further inflation. Bankers were surprised not at the boost but at its timing. Most expected an increase last fall, when borrowing began to pick up, instead of last week, when it was just beginning to taper off seasonally...
...Harvard is for the first time in our history a possibility that we must admit. The destruction of the spiritual premises on which our whole tradition rests is likewise a possibility that no one can deny who recalls the fate of the University in Prague. To prevent such possibilities' becoming in fact realities is the problem that we face collectively and individually. Each one of us must asses the situation personally and guide his course accordingly...
Conant said he has made tentative plans to leave his High Commission post in Bonn, Germany, for three or four days in June and fly back to award diplomas to this year's graduating classes. Developments in Germany this spring, however, may prevent his returning...