Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Ralph Bates spoke for the Loyalists in Spain, many conservatives were present; but not only did they refrain from hissing, they even did not ask questions that would harass the speakers. They conducted themselves under the ideal that one should attend a lecture to listen, and not to prevent others from enjoying...
...leads the world in volume, the airport at the U. S. capital is one of the world's most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports, threatened to quit...
Joseph A. Langone, Boston undertaker, who last year cast the crucial ballot in the senate's 21-19 decision to send the bill to Governor Hurley, again voted for the abolishment of the Oath law, An Attempt to suspend the rules and prevent the third reading failed...
...value of Arnold's dissection of the myth of the business man, the value of his criticism of superficial thinking that arbitrarily separates the forces of government from those of business, is that the destruction of symbols which prevent a successful integration of these forces would be of permanent aid in enabling us to discharge the responsibilities of the machine...
...filibuster in the Senate throughout the first week of the special session was staged to prevent passage of the (1 wages and hours, 2 housing, 3 farm, 4 antilynching, 5 tax-revision) bill...