Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most urgent constitutional issue now facing the U.S. would have been settled last week. The issue: the abolition of the famed "two-thirds rule" which kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations-the rule by which a Senate minority (one-third plus one of the members) can prevent ratification of a treaty. Gallup pollsters found 60% of citizens in favor of allowing treaties to be ratified by a simple majority of both House and Senate. Only 19% would preserve the Senate's ancient prerogative...
Tito says that the Germans, while not resorting to a large scale offensive, are exerting offensive pressure on a number of different points to force the Partisans to waste their supplies and ammunition and prevent them from concentrating at the moment of the Allied invasion of Europe...
Once again Harvard's rugby team proved to the British Empire players that long experience and understanding of the game alone is not sufficient to prevent a comparatively green but closely coordinated American squad from winning. By the end of the hour-long fast and open game, the Crimson players had amassed a total of 17 points against the are chalked up by a team of the Royal New Zealand Navy...
...Holmes was in his 80s when people began to call him The Great Dissenter. Holmes was annoyed. How could he help dissenting,* he asked, when the Supreme Court rendered such illiberal decisions? "There is nothing," he protested, "that I more deprecate than the use of the Fourteenth Amendment ... to prevent the making of social experiments that an important part of the community desires . . . though the experiments may seem futile or even noxious...
...Director Alberto Gainza Paz, handsome nephew of Don Ezequiel and Doňa Zelmira, met the Government's price for lifting the suspension: it printed the Farrell regime's defense of its economies (one item: rats had been exterminated, thus saving the cost of feeding them to prevent their nibbling at hospital records...