Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peters also suspects tutoring schools of rifling class room drawers or breaking open absence report boxes in the college halls. To prevent these practices, it was suggested that Faculty men discontinue the habit of leaving lists in the classroom and that janitors be instructed to watch the report boxes...
...forefront of, and Mrs. Roosevelt's country stood at the brink of joining, a mobilization of what Mrs. Roosevelt's indomitable uncle, Roosevelt I, would have called the forces of Righteousness. Week by week, day by day, other forces were operating in a way which might prevent the two ladies meeting in June and divert both their countries' wool production away from ladies' dresses and into socks, sweaters, breeches, belly-bands for soldiers...
...leave him alone. The mouth is an "important organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to dentists and public health specialists at a meeting on child dentistry in Manhattan last week. Parents who keep snatching things from their children's mouths not only prevent infants from exercising their jaws, but also cramp the development of personality, for a child's first "satisfactions and pleasures, his first hungers and frustrations" are centred around his mouth...
...world war this year is not inevitable, but very, very probable. However, the situation is better since President Roosevelt's speech yesterday. His warning proves to the dictators that he will be as unneutral as he can manage. Only fear of America can prevent a great war this year...
...Civil Liberties the session went on record as approving the LaFollette Committee's work and strongly protesting the Dies Committee's investigation of "Un-American Activities." It also censured poll taxes and other means used to prevent racial minorities from voting...