Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seize the Leftist island of Minorca. The British and French have been thick in the western Mediterranean ever since the Spanish civil war began, and the New York Times was authority for the announcement that "Precautions were ordered that both British and French vessels should be in evidence to prevent any attempted seizure [of Minorca] by anyone else...
...Hara has caused large numbers of Pawtucket police to intimidate public officials and prevent them from performing their duties, (As Mr. O'Hara is linked with the Pawtucket faction in the Democratic Party, which opposes the Governor's faction, the Pawtucket police have given no help to the Governor in his controversy with the race-track corporation, and he has been obliged to rely on the State Police and the National Guard...
...subservient Congress with spectacular war whoops, and when all business was chastened and employed as a whipping post, and when instilling the confidence and providing the stable government necessary for real recovery was the farthest thing from the President's mind. The original Securities Act, although designed ostensibly to prevent frauds and protect the public, in reality acted as a firm blockade against the receipt of the new capital so sorely needed by American business. Perhaps the crowning blow was the undistributed profits tax and its hand-maiden, the capital gains tax. The first, by destroying all hope of building...
...Scott's device is a large box (cubic content: one yard) mounted on a table. To prevent any annoying reflection, the outside of the box is painted black. The inside is a very pure white. All around the edge of the affair, which is open on one side, are rows of colored lights which are mounted so as to provide only reflected illumination...
Dudley's attack improved greatly in the second half. More timely interference would have aided further. Black and Lewis stood out. On the defense the Commuters remained firm. In the fourth they took the ball on the 7-yard line to prevent a score...