Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could not prevent the occupation of the Islands...
Again, in 1923, Premier Facta asked him to sign a decree establishing a state of siege. The Fascisti were at the gates of Rome and it was clear that the King must choose between civil war and the exercise of his constitutional powers to prevent it. He tore up the decree. Premier Facta resigned...
...chronic religious conflagrations, western New York was then known as the "burnt over" district. Brigham lent ear to all itinerant moralizers, faith to none. Said he: "I saw them get religion all around me. Men were rolling and bawling and thumping." At 23, "to prevent being any more pestered," he became a Methodist...
...driving impulse behind the consolidation is to eliminate the sharp competition which of late years has tended to prevent normal profits in the asbestos industry. It has been particularly necessary for the managers of the new merger to come to agreement with certain prominent Canadian-U. S. firms which will not come into the consolidation and where business volume and size make them an important factor in the business. It is understood that with the "Big Three" of these "independent companies-Johns-Manville, Keasbey & Mattison and Philip Carey & Co.-arrangements have been made to prevent their products interfering with...
...have a distinct influence on those who hear them. Everyone truly counts to some extent, for although many people from no opinions of their own and merely reflect their surroundings--Laodiceans, neither hot nor cold--spineless drifters without self-direction--still they have an effect, and may both prevent the spread of right thought and promote a mischievous course. They are a shitting cargo in the ship of state, a peril if the bulkheads break...