Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
...peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage. In his ode to liberty, there is no suggestion that when all barriers are down the huge financial resources of the American agences might enable them to dominate the world. His desire to prevent another Goebbels from poisoning the wells will be universally applauded, but democracy does not necessarily mean making the whole world safe...
Civil affairs administrators at first had found it impossible to pay any wages at all to native laborers. With no goods available, any money in native hands became mischief money, that was traded to soldiers for Government equipment. To prevent this, all wages were withheld for two months, until trade goods could be shipped...
...failure. But it accomplished some things (many an airman, for instance, well aware of the difference between the postwar fares which Britain and the U.S. expect to charge, cheered when rigid fare-fixing and quotas went by the board). But the U.S. is in favor of minimum fares (to prevent over-subsidization), which the airlines themselves are conferring about but which will not be a part of the pact. The net effect of the conference was: the U.S. would be free to put to best use its vast store of know-how, and its planes...
...been previously demonstrated on animals, but never before on human beings): a glass tube is fitted into the pulsing ends of a severed artery, bridging the gap so that the wounded member may live until the patient is strong enough to stand an operation. Intravenous injections of heparin prevent dangerous clotting in the tube...