Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paludrine, newly synthesized from coal tar, is claimed by its British discoverers to be a better malaria attack preventive than atabrine. Quinine and atabrine merely prevent parasites already in the blood from making the victim sick. Paludrine may occasionally even prevent malaria from getting into the blood at all, by killing the germ at the moment the mosquito pushes it through the skin...
...prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...
...resolution passed at the Conference of Chapultepec (1945), which states that nations shall "prevent with all the means in their power all that may provoke discrimination among individuals...
...Arnold, hiring out his trust-busting talents to Reynolds, had filed suit in Wilmington's Federal Court for $1,000,000 (treble damages) against Eversharp Inc. and Eberhard Faber Corp. on a familiar Arnold charge: violation of the antitrust laws. The two defendants, Arnold claimed, had tried to "prevent mass distribution" of the Reynolds pen until they could 1) get rid of their own obsolete stocks, and 2) produce a ballbearing pen of their own on the basis of patent rights acquired from Laszlo Joszef Biro of Argentina (TIME...
...socialism." Like most of his school, Author Scott believes that Europe's Communist parties work on their own without benefit of Moscow guidance, that Russia is rapidly becoming more conservative. He also believes that another world war would destroy civilization, that only harmonious U.S.-Russian relations can prevent such a war, that Russian aggressive policies are somehow caused by the fact that in the U.S. people are always grossly hurting Russian feelings. In a chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some do's and don'ts whereby Americans may spare the easily abraded Russian skin...