Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect cities from airplane bombardment. Suspended horizontally on springs, the net would catch the bombs as gently as if they were circus acrobats, prevent them from exploding...
...magnetic device to prevent high-speed trains from jumping the track on curves. The centrifugal pull of the train as it rounds a bend would automatically increase the magnetic grip between train and rails...
Japanese G. H. Q. this week seized the Chinese Government's revenue cutters, fire boats and police launches in Shanghai waters, announced they had seized "in principle" all the Government's rights in Shanghai and would prevent any part of the metropolis' vast customs revenues from reaching Generalissimo Chiang. Chinese cable censorship at Shanghai was abolished, the Japanese not imposing this week censorship of their own. Expulsion of Chinese officials from Shanghai Govern-ment buildings was decreed. Chinese and foreigners alike were sternly warned by Japanese authorities to eschew anti-Jap-anese and pro-Communist activities...
...treaties-five conventions, two treaties and a protocol, arranging principally for consultative machinery to prevent war or provide unified Inter-American action in case war is forced upon any of the American republics-have reposed in official discard since their birth a year ago. Publicity given the flying caravan sent Latin American officials scurrying to drag out copies of the conventions. Informed by the U. S. diplomatic representative of the expected caravan visit, one Foreign Minister exclaimed: "My God! We had forgotten all about those treaties. I shall send them to Congress immediately...
...Japanese people are commonly a mild-mannered people. . . . From ancient times, mendicant priests have carried a shakujo, or staff, to the top of which are affixed clanging metal rings. By striking it on the ground they would frighten away worms and insects that might be in their path to prevent trampling upon them. And even modern universities hold memorial services for animals dissected in the study of anatomy in the medical schools...