Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...license to drive a car for 25? at the corner drugstore. . . . A man or a woman or a child can . . . get behind the wheel. . . . If he is insane ... a nut or a moron does not make a particle of difference. . . . The States . . . take no steps to prevent you or me from being killed by some moron that has no more business at the wheel of a car than he has at the throttle of an engine...
...endless time, abuse and trouble to round up Seattle's merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...
...criticism" which you advocate, but unlike your editorial, it recognizes the U. N. for what it is, a political anachronism. Until its charter is amended it will remain merely a forum for the airing of disputes, a laudable institution indeed, but one which in the final analysis will never prevent war, whether five of fifty years from...
...issue must never be confused. World government can prevent war. The present U. N. can not. Time is short. Clifford R. Hope...
...students receiving pay for their work. They would be responsible for coordinating the activities of the various House organizations on a college wide basis, and could use the exchange's slight profits to buy new furnishing in wholesale quantities and to repair worn pieces of furniture. This exchange would prevent the men who sell their furniture at term's end from taking an unnecessary loss, and assure an ample supply of decently priced furniture for the beginning of the next school year...