Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perfect Life. After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...
Powers' chemicals have no effect on the appearance of the materials treated. To prevent runs in stockings, he devised a treatment with a colloidal chemical called silica sol. Very fine grains of silica (in visible to the naked eye), deposited on the threads, make snagged threads cling to their neighbors instead of unraveling. The same chemical is used to put a lusterless coating (which must be renewed from time to time) on blue serge and to impregnate wool so that it achieves a durable crease when pressed under heat. To make wool shrink-proof, Powers first wets...
...Taft overlooked a bigger fact: if dollars and gold are drained out of the fund they will drain into the U.S. to pay for American goods. In short, the threat is that the hard money assets of the fund will be spent in the U.S., particularly if American tariffs prevent settlement of these debts in goods. Other countries will be as interested as the U.S. in preventing this...
Policy toward Germany. The chief U.S. war aim in Europe is to prevent Germany from ever again detaching one of her neighbors from the Atlantic Community or from the Russian Orbit. AH other political and moral accounts should be settled not by the U.S., but by Germany's victims in Europe. Later a neutralized and demilitarized Germany may find her place in the Atlantic Community, but "only with the sincere consent of the Soviet Union." If, on the other hand, Lippmann warns, Germany should ever slip into the Russian Orbit, Russia would have expanded to the shores...
...World Divided. In the last analysis, everything in Author Lippmann's audit comes down to the question of relations between just two powers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "They can prevent a third World War. If they fight, it will be the most terrible of all world wars." But if Russia remains within her orbit, they have no reasons to fight. They would certainly fight "if the Soviet Union made an alliance with Germany, with Japan, or a separate and exclusive alliance with any member of the Atlantic Community"-for example, France...