Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...management and adroit manipulation can all too easily capture the affair for one faction or another. It is in a hopeful if not glowing attitude that the College must accept the Conference. But caution, which is vital, need not develop into a spirit of cynicism and fear that would prevent acceptance of the proposal, for whatever the result, it is incumbent on Harvard students to be represented in the discussions...
...half-page ad in the Wellesley, Mass. Townsman, Roger Babson, noted for his goatee and his dire predictions, said: "Boston will be destroyed by the atom bomb. . . .The United Nations has not the power to prevent such until it is made over into a real World Government . . . we know that the American people will never vote to do so until . . . after our large coastal cities have been ruined...
...Frank L. McDougall, acting director of Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, spoke to the committee of long range effects of the present food crises. He stressed that the current problem is not a new one and that the FAO has been set up to try and prevent any recurrence of these world famines...
Chungking observers believed that Chiang was willing to make further concessions if he could find the solution to one all-important question: if the Government and the Reds reached a new accord, what was to prevent the Reds from violating that too, creating another "changed situation" and demanding a still higher price for the peace China needs? Said a high Government official: "[The Communists] want us to agree to an unconditional truce, because this would legalize their attempt to overthrow the [military] agreement...
...itself out with time, or be solved by governmental conjure, have faded with the emasculation of the Wyatt housing program and the recent prediction of local constructors that, barring miracles, the shortage will last for the next five years. Only temporary housing, erected and installed by the University, will prevent disaster during this period...