Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the doctors have told me that it was essential that I should consume at least a quart of milk daily, while my brain has informed me that it was of primary importance for me to have coffee to prevent me from falling asleep in the midst of the ever important intellectual conversations which flourish at the end of all House meals. Now I am forced to dispense with at least one of these, and I find it impossible to determine which. The result is that for days I have had nothing to drink; I am completely asleep...
...Argentinian and American peoples have common objectives in the present situation, and purely domestic problems prevent a complete Argentinian break with the Axis," the Professor asserted. He reported further that American literature; Hemingway, Dos Passos, and others are tremendously popular in the southern republic...
...Lack of a reading knowledge of ancient languages," he said, "need no longer prevent a student from studying the Classics, for the new courses will be given in English...
...news from Singapore could not be much worse. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent the Japanese from capturing this "practically impregnable" fortress in a very few days, perhaps even hours. When Singapore falls, the last hope of a relatively short war against Japan will disappear, and America will have to climb down out of its cloud of wishful thinking and face the hard, cruel facts of a hard, cruel...
Slow to take effect, the new "starvation menu" by yesterday evening had not yet weakened students sufficiently to prevent heartfelt and biting defiance of the pay-as-you-eat plan...