Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant that the Government must, over its own policy, proceed to give women civil servants equal pay. Since the House was then sitting in committee, His Majesty's Government hastily won (149-to-134) a motion that the Speaker be returned to his chair. It could not, however, prevent Labor's Major Attlee from stampeding through a motion to adjourn a House divided between hilarious laughter and solemn indignation...
...join these terrific speeds and pressures, Scientist Svedberg enclosed his rotor so that it spins in hydrogen reduced to 1/30 atmospheric pressure. Driving mechanism consists essentially of two turbines, the size of thread spools, against which oil is pumped at 800 lb. per sq. in. pressure. To prevent overheating of bearings, 45 minutes are required to work the rotor up to operating speed, 45 minutes more to slow it down. The rotor is oval in shape because an oval is less likely to fly apart than a circle...
...that rate are subjected to a force 250,000 times that of gravity. In short spurts the centrifuge can rotate up to 160,000 r.p.m., exaggerating gravity 1,100,000 times. If this speed were maintained more than a few seconds the rotor would fly into smithereens. To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick...
...Schmidt and Joe Fortenberry are 6 ft. 9 and 6 ft. 8 respectively. When the team travels, they sleep on hotel bedroom floors. They have perfected a technique called "dunking," with which they score by jumping up above the basket, dropping the ball into it. On the defense, they prevent opponents from scoring by batting the ball out of the basket...
...numerous, powerful and utterly unscrupulous. First comes Representative Dorgan, father of many eye-catching, hollow and communist-baiting bits of worthless legislation. Mr. Dorgan's forte lies in bills to purify the theatre (especially Shakespeare), keep our American youth unsullied from the myriad wiles and snares of Moscow, and prevent the Red universities of Massachusetts from completely seducing the young...