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Word: prevented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Costa Rican officials considered occupying Cocos Island, which lies about 550 miles southwest of Panama and which no nation claims, to prevent its use as a belligerent submarine base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAS: No Big Brother | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Precautions went screwy. To prevent autos from striking them during blackouts, cows and horses were painted with white stripes. Sandbags climbed walls like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wolf! Wolf! | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Ministry of Information announced: "The German wireless has distorted the purpose of the British contraband policy as setting out to strangle neutral trade and bringing starvation and death to old people, women and children. . . . What Britain is endeavoring to do is to prevent the German Government from importing goods ... to prolong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Strangling Match | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...committee used these ugly facts to pose a problem: How can democracy prevent such tragic waste? That fundamental problem is certain to be posed again & again until it is permanently solved. But the report of the committee was badly timed for getting Americans to face their problem now. It came at the very moment when a war boom threatened to abolish unemployment until peace brings the next depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Delicious Circle? | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Advantages of Japan against her new competitor are: 1) her supply-source is prodigious-she has big (two or three feet across), murderous-looking king crabs, each of whose arms provides two cans of crab steak, 2) her crabs do not require treatment to prevent discoloration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Blue Crabs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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