Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shows a blissful ignorance of the personality of swine. I envy the man who has never had to become familiar with their perversity. . . . The average hog can only be driven by a system of deceit in which one attempts to prevent it from going in the direction one really wishes it to go. With this in mind, consider a hog's tiny hoofs, supporting a body bigger than man's. Then imagine the hog on slippery ice, where his complete natural perversity and unpredictableness is further complicated by the fact that he has no control of his feet...
...machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists at week's end hurled their full force, but at last reports had failed to breach the line at any spot. To prevent General Miaja from withdrawing long-inactive troops scattered along southern Spain's far-flung battle line for the defense of Valencia, the Rightists' famed radiorating General Queipo de Llano, commander-in-chief of southern Rightist Spain, was last week ordered to drive against another Leftist balloon-shaped salient...
...Each State has baffling local problems. Example: In Washington, regulations against the transfer of teachers from county to county prevent 5,000 workers at Grand Coulee Dam from having classes for which they have petitioned...
...feet, then. drunkenly, it began to topple to earth. both motors roaring behind up-to-date full-feathering propellers. Queerly it hit, tail and left wing tip scraping the ground first, 1,000 yards beyond the airport. Like a flash experienced Pilot Walter Bullock cut his master switch to prevent fire. For 200 feet the ship furrowed along, straight for a 75-foot canyon, then hit a scrub oak, swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger, a woman, was hurled clear, died an hour later...
...favorite plea, particularly of heavy industries such as steel and cement, that some sort of price stabilization : needed to prevent local monopolies (TIME, July 11). Maybe so, concedes Dr. Nourse but this cannot be justified in the long run for it means conducting industry in the interest of the inefficient and disregarding the advantages of technological progress...