Word: preventatively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...achieve this we must join with the rest of the world, through the League of Nations, in a system of collective security based on mutual assistance to prevent aggression...
John Llewellyn Lewis had turned the meeting hall into a wildcats' den, had inveighed against the all-powerful, conservative Executive Council -finally knocking a fellow vice president flat-but that did not prevent sanctimonious President William Green from winding up last month's American Federation of Labor convention with: "It becomes our duty now to forget. The debate is over. The problems have been solved...
...story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people by rewarding this traitor to our nation. We hope that the Norwegian Government is sufficiently familiar with the ways of the world to prevent what would be a slap in the face of the German people...
...Gonzales last week: "If [the verdict] goes through we might as well shut up shop. If medical examiners and coroners are going to be handicapped by the refusal of relatives to permit an autopsy, we'll be in a pretty situation. A brother might poison a sister and prevent us from determining the cause of death by refusing to permit an autopsy...
...There has been some criticism of smoking by Radcliffe students, particularly on the steps of Fogg Museum, Widener Library, and the Harvard Music Building. The members of the Dean's Advisory Committee wish to bring the matter to your attention in an effort to prevent friction and to maintain our relations with Harvard on a mutually pleasant basis...