Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright knows that the most difficult part of play writing is to prevent the last act from falling flat. After traveling through the first two acts at a fast pace, it is hard to hold that pace until the end. Moreover, if the first two acts are well constructed, they should force a fairly inevitable conclusion. With a public like the American people, fed from its infancy on news, it is difficult to inspire interest in the inevitable...
...advocated a plan by which this saving would be possible tomorrow. "If we could change our habits so as to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go to bed at 6 o'clock in the evening, we would be able to eliminate the difficulties that prevent power houses from using surplus heat as light when it is dark, and as heat when it is cold...
...gutted by fire in 1814 by British soldiers under Sir Robert Ross. Only the walls were left standing. The interior was rebuilt, and to cover the smoke stains on the walls of Virginia freestone, it was painted white. Hence its name-the White House. To prevent another fire, Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, Army engineer in charge of public buildings, has prepared plans for fireproofing the White House, now said to be a fire trap. The cost would be $400,000. He took his plans to the House Committee on appropriations. One of the Congressmen wanted to know whether...
Gandhi was arrested in 1922, after his failure to prevent his noncooperating followers from committing acts of violence against the British Raj. He declared that his views on politics and religion had undergone no change in prison. He objected to the tendency to make a saint...
...same time, there is every reason to believe that a few more wars, of the scope of the World War and future wars can scarcely help becoming world wars--will work the destruction of Western civilization. If this is to be accounted worth saving, the problem is clearly to prevent wars not merely to prosecute them skilfully after they have begun. And for this purpose it will be necessary to convince the world--or a dominating majority, of the futility, the horror of modern war. In other words, the solution of the problem lies in so forming public opinion that...