Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were 5,000,000 radio-equipped automobiles. The three main arguments against auto-radios are that they divert the driver's attention from the road, prevent him from hearing warning signals, preoccupy him with tuning manipulation. But four counterarguments for auto-radios were found: they 1) induce slower driving; 2) break the monotony of extended or night driving, prevent drowsiness, promote attention, interest, alertness; 3) soothe motorists during extended traffic jams; 4) silence backseat driving. Motor-vehicle commissioners in 38 States failed to find any accidents directly attributable to auto-radios...
Already the Clinic has been besieged by upperclassmen who are entranced by the idea of flicking through the pages of their reading assignments. Immediate expansion may be impractical; but scientific zeal for thoroughness should not prevent the University from making more generally available, certainly in the near future, the immense practical benefits of the scheme now in embryo...
...prevent the further disintegration of its gawky problem children, the University must establish some stricter rule of discipline and wipe out the injustice that exists in far too many courses. Psychologists at Harvard have worked out an excellent system of marking for large classes. Yet with pitifully few exceptions, the other large courses have failed to take advantage of their refined and scholarly research. They prefer to go their own antiquated gait, leaving their marking system open to chance and injustice...
...plan is devised so as to "cushion" the effect of war on the markets and prevent a financial panic such as wiped out the savings of thousands of Americans when the World War broke...
...permanent prisons where Communist agitators, homosexuals, disgraced Nazis, Jewish university professors, Protestant conscientious objectors are thrown together in common cells. They wear coarse, striped uniforms, their heads are cropped, they shave only once weekly. The Jews wear yellow badges and the homosexuals pink, and few steps are taken to prevent Jewish adolescents from being attacked or molested...