Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that when the British, under General Tarleton, drove the Virginia Legislature from Charlottesville to Staunton, volunteers were called for to prevent the passage of the British through the mountains at Rockfish Gap. History tells us that Mrs. Lewis called to her side her three young sons, aged 17, 15 and 13 years, and made them fly to the defense of their country, their native land...
...cannot escape the conviction that it is the duty of every good citizen, regardless of all consideration of party regularity and all other considerations, to leave nothing undone that legitimately may 'be done to prevent the restoration of Fergusonism to power in the State Capitol at Austin...
There is a painless gas which produces a fatal effect on the heart, of which the victim would have no knowledge before - or after - he dropped dead. There are gases which upset the digestive functions and prevent the taking of food. Other gases poison the blood and prevent it from carrying oxygen to the several parts of the body. Gases may be used which have a gradual effect, not noticed at first, or which-like mustard gas-seep into solid objects and infest a neighborhood for weeks...
...possibility of the use of bacteria, and the waging of a war of disease, this is fortunately less than the possibility of serious gas attacks. Water supplies can usually be fairly well guarded and protective measures taken to prevent the spread of disease, even if these sources are infected. There are filtering, chemical purification and vaccination as countermeasures. Bacteria, likewise, can not be distributed in shells as can gases, because the explosion would destroy them. They would have to dropped in glass tubes by airplanes. Everything considered, the danger, as compared to the use of gases, is small...
President Coolidge, asked by a New Yorker to interfere in order to prevent Dr. Roberts' nomination. He replied...