Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight, obviously accumulating strength for a leap across. Now assured of a gory niche in military annals, the Roer was the toughest water line in front of the Rhine - the key barrier in this sector which both sides clearly regarded as crucial. The Germans had fought viciously to prevent the Americans even from reaching the muddy shore, and they could be expected to try even harder to disrupt a crossing...
...women, Dr. Goebbels. Affecting to disdain the Russian practice of thrusting women into battle, the Völkischer Beobachter snorted: "It is not a question of training something like the Soviet Russian Flintenweiber [rifle wenches]. We will not have any un-German amazons and everything will be done to prevent the female nature and habits from being harmed...
...death last October saved him from a trial for collaboration. When he died, the French Government, urged on by leftists, many of them Renault workers, decreed the seizure of the automobile plants as an important step in its new plan of progressive nationalization. This, it was believed, would prevent the Renault holdings from going to Renault's wife and son Jean...
Wartime Federal grants to schools and especially to colleges have changed the pattern of U.S. education irrevocably; few hereafter will dare to challenge the right of any U.S. youth to a college education simply because he or his parents cannot afford it. To keep Washington a rich uncle and prevent it from becoming the hard master of U.S. education, Dr. Stoddard recommends that the Federal Government grant to the states $100 to $200 a year for each student between 16 and 20. The annual cost, within a decade: $1,750,000,000. The alternative to such a program, he believes...
Formerly Professor at the University of Giesson, and a visiting lecturer here in 1935 and 1936, Professor Vietor is disinclined to propose any specific policy to be followed in German occupation. He is certain, however, that while "the Allies can prevent a lot of undesirable things," outside pressure alone "cannot force the Germans to become good moral beings...