Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drug is not habit-forming, and Federal law does not prevent its shipment, but Massachusetts outlaws it as a harmful drug...
...most effective, and his conclusion impressed his audience: if only Americans understand, "then the sacrifice of money is not going to sound in their ears like the sacrifice of our sons on the battlefield. That is what we are trying to prevent . . . Let's not throw away the engines of this ship of state...
...devoted help tapered off on drinking after doctors told him that he had cirrhosis of the liver. But it was too late to go back: Joe McCarthy was a sick man. Once capable of frenetic energies, he found that a single Senate speech (a lone, weak attempt to prevent the promotion of an old target, Ralph Zwicker, to major general) was so exhausting that he had to rest...
...said that the world's greatest hope was that there would be no tyranny which might prevent the free flow of knowledge, and predicted that the freedom of thought and communication which characterizes our society would spread throughout the world. The developments of quantum theory on which Oppenheimer spent almost half of his lectures were emphasized, he said, to illustrate how man takes old knowledge, re-examines it, synthesizes it and finally transcends it in new, more complete statements of reality...
...Dartmouth's third straight in the league, and put the Crimson in a very weak position, as its two losses practically prevent it from over taking Yale or Dartmouth...