Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under this edict from the Administration of the college, all dances which have been scheduled for this fall, winter, and spring will be cancelled in an effort to meet the demands of the government to prevent clogging the transportation facilities to Princeton...
...flew northward 275 miles to Sian. In the drizzling rain at the airport he was met by the most important person in North China, Major General Hu Tsung-nan. It is the crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest troops, to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River bend near Sian. The front has been stationary there for three years. If the Japanese ever got bridgeheads, they might then find it easy to conquer Chungking from the north...
...with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...
...List's opponent, General Melnik, well knows that such barriers, even when snow clogs the high mountain passes, are not enough to save the Caucasus. Observed Red Star; "No natural obstacle can prevent enemy advances unless it is backed by fire power and men." Melnik, commander of the Red Army's southernmost wing, is more a flat-country fighter than a mountaineer (TIME, Oct. 12), but he is also an expert guerrilla tactician...
...Crimson editorialist would probably reply that he only wants the State to act as policeman, to prevent unscrupulous men from blocking free enterprise. This is, first, unnecessary. Monopolies (and, needless to say, tariffs) do not arise without governmental connivance. No monopoly exists that did not grow with the aid of the State. Secondly, it is impossible. Never has a State been given control over the wealth produced by its citizens without grievously misappropriating...