Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American Aviation, Inc., for instance, shows two sealed glass tubes. One of them contains air as well as fine dust, and a small steel ball sinks deeply below the surface. The other has a vacuum. The dust particles, no longer lubricated by air between them, pack tightly and prevent the ball from sinking. On the airless moon, it is likely that dust has compacted in the same...
...came Indian troops, and a dewan or Prime Minister furnished by India. When the Reds seized neighboring Tibet, India made Sikkim a protectorate, posted troops on the Tibetan border to prevent the smuggling of Communist propaganda in mule trains, required all visitors to Sikkim to give two weeks' notice before getting clearance to enter the country...
...changes are bound to place unions in a less friendly environment." If their membership continues to drop in relation to the total work force, unions may well find that they can count on less public sympathy for strikes, less power at the polls, and more demands for laws to prevent fewer and fewer workers from throwing more and more out of work...
Returning after a two-week Christmas recess, the delegates will discuss problems dealing with specific inspection arrangements and voting procedures. The key question is whether or not the Russians will accept a truly international system of control to prevent nuclear test cheating
...began to instruct the young of Northfield, Minn, in 1867, its faculty consisted wholly of a stout-souled Dartmouth graduate named Horace Goodhue Jr., who taught 14 classes a day. Nine years later and still not overstaffed, the college lost a good man when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first for the town...