Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objectionable advertisement in yesterday's Crimson was in complete opposition to the Crimson's policy in regard to the subject. That it appeared was due entirely to an oversight which admittedly does not excuse the editors from responsibility, but which will keep them more closely on guard to prevent its repitition in the future...
...AntiChristian espionage" is widespread, the Cardinal charged, and priests are prevented from reading "certain episcopal documents" by the simple expedient of arrest. Churchgoers are being morally blackmailed by instructions that "less faithful attendance . . . means keeping your job." Party functionaries are quoted as asking Catholics to quit the church or quit the future of Greater Germany. Though Nazi Party meetings go on to small hours, young people are forbidden to attend evening church festivals, because "they last too long and prevent their getting sufficient sleep...
...distribute 15,000 tons of wheat monthly. The plan was being promoted by the Swedish Red Cross, and Sweden had agreed to provide the shipping tonnage. Canada and the U.S. were ready to furnish the wheat. It was believed that that amount of wheat would be enough to prevent actual starvation in the Greek cities and islands where conditions are worst...
There was nothing in this bargain to prevent the Diet from again acting as a sounding board when this year's elections came around. The Japanese radio announced that 378 out of 466 seats had been won by Government-supported, war-favoring candidates. If 20% of the elected candidates were unsupported by the Government, probably much more than 20% of the total vote was cast for candidates unsupported by the Government. This did not mean that Japan was on the verge of collapse: it did seem to mean that at least one Japanese voter in every five is seriously...
...that time, the only effect that it produced in the University was the extinguishing of the lights on the towers and the painting of the tops of bulbs in outside lights to prevent their shining directly into...