Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main interest is to prevent police brutality, such as that which took place at the Karlsruhe demonstration last year", declared the National Student League at its first meeting of the year, which was held Sunday night at Kirkland House...
...snapping point. Six Italian cruisers and 16 smaller craft steamed into the harbor of Durazzo and Albanian troops started digging trenches on the hillside. Two British officers, Major General Sir Jocelyn Percy and a Major Cripps, instructors to the Albanian gendarmery, did more than anything else to prevent an open break. The cruisers were withdrawn, and last week reason returned to Puppet Zog. He was persuaded by Benito Mussolini to accept a handsome loan with which to buy more munitions from Italy. Ten thousand Italian settlers will be admitted and Italian officers will continue to command the Albanian Army...
This year, however, with the progress of Roosevelt recovery and the coincident rise in the birth rate, the squirrels have repeatedly threatened to overrun the Yard. Stringent measures have indeed been necessary to keep down the slate colored hordes, and to prevent the steady demolition of the foundations of such derelict edifices as Brooks House by the eroding action of countless razor-sharp molars...
...Major L. L. B. ("Coming American Boom'') Angas, nor a blast of optimism from Propheteer Roger Babson, nor the fact that the American Federation of Labor plumped for the profit system, nor the universal pessimism of brokers' market letters-sure sign of better times ahead-could prevent the stockmarket from going down, down...
...Nordhoff & Hall had been over all the ground and much of the sea once traveled by the Bounty's crew, had long intended to take a trip to lonely Pitcairn Island, the Bounty's last port of call. But when chance offered, something always turned up to prevent their going. Last summer, when he heard of a schooner which was to touch there, Hall decided to go even though Nordhoff could not accompany him. The Tale of a Shipwreck, a quiet, rambling narrative that tells not only of his voyage and shipwreck...