Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Children in Passaic picketed the schools to prevent their classmates from going to class. "No school today," said their banners. From their guarded offices, mill-owners announced that the mills would reopen immediately, that strikers who wanted to go back to work would be given police-protection day and night. Droves of police stood ready...
Gradually authority asserted itself. Gradually, the General's personal likeableness was felt. Politicians Quezon and Osmena, furious because of the diminished power of their rhetoric, could not prevent it. So they began to flood the cables with anti-Wood gossip. They made local scenes which in far off Washington looked bad. They came personally to Congress with petitions railing against the General. Two years ago President Coolidge told them it was useless, told them in effect that it was impossible for them to make any sober individual in Washington believe that Governor General Wood was a tyrant, knave or fool...
Atheists v. Chaplains. Publicity-seeking perhaps, religious conviction certainly, last week led the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism to file suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to prevent the Government from paying chaplains attached to the Senate and House and the Army and Navy. The chaplains have had as yet no opportunity to rebut this unexpected attack upon their long-established functionings...
This was parodied in 1923, when the Massachusetts Cabots sought vainly to prevent a Kabotchnick family of Pennsylvania from changing their name to Cabot...
...tests were made, reported Dr. John F. Anderson of New Brunswick, N. J. But Dr. William H. Park of the New York City Health Department amended the optimism by pointing out that scarlet fever is not highly contagious, that the antitoxin should be administered to cure, not needlessly to prevent...