Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still. The dynamic ingredients of democratic capitalism demand that we either move ahead or retreat. The record of the present Congress is a record of retreat. There is no security in retreat. The smears and witch-hunts promoted by Congress will never save democratic capitalism. Only positive action to prevent depression can do that...
...Russian delegation, Soviet Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky. The ultimate issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power and international moral rostrum to keep the nations divided and make peace a diminishing allusion...
...constitutional fathers quite obviously and quite rightly wanted to prevent the establishment of religious monopoly. ... It is not at all clear that they sought to prevent the state's support of religion absolutely, provided such support could be given equitably to all religious groups. . . . [The] principle of 'separation of church and state' . . . goes no further than the prohibition of the establishment of one religion and the suppression of others. . . . The [effort] to make the separation . . . absolute ... is a reflection ... of the Protestant fear of Catholicism...
...suspected that one reason for a queen bee's long life might be her rich diet: royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...
...eccentricities, "How I Wonder" tries very hard to be honest. The scientist can take the presidency of a Southern college and keep quiet on political questions, or he can give up everything and in his ineffectual way try to prevent another war. A woman from another planet, also in his mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems...