Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compilation work on the 1945 Harvard Album has been completed despite overwhelming wartime difficulties, Paul Blanchard of the Warren Press reported last weekend; and while other problems may crop up to prevent realization of the current timetable, hopes are that the book will be printed and bound by the end of September...
...again be standard. That meant an immediate cut in the take-home pay ¶ Controls on raw materials would be lifted completely, except on still critical items, such as tin, rubber, lumber. Industry would be given a green light, but WPB would remain as a sort of umpire to prevent a mad and unseemly scramble. One result: automobile-makers (with WPB blessing) promptly upped their estimates of how many cars can be turned out in 1945-from...
...must constitute ourselves trustees of this new force-to prevent its misuse, and to turn it into the channels of service to mankind...
Danish Scientist Niels Bohr, whose research had done much to create the new atomic age, soberly wrote in the London Times: "Against the new destructive powers no defense may be possible, and the issues center on worldwide cooperation to prevent any use of the new source of energy which does not serve mankind as a whole...
...harbor and dock it in the foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...