Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been promised a high place in international affairs by an astrologer. Added she: ". . . how could that be if I am not married to you?" Revealing a few additional morsels of her billets-doux to the House, Coffee remarked: ". . . the rules of etiquette and the spirit of fair play prevent me from including any more excerpts from Miss Kellems' correspondence with the Nazi Count of Argentina." Miss Kellems, 48-year-old parson's daughter, who last January briefly denied she had ever known Zedlitz, raged in a statement for the press: "The perfect coordination . . . among Secretary Morgenthau, Mr. [Columnist...
...Three others have been lost but not in action: 526 and R-12 in accidents; the Sealion destroyed to prevent capture at Cavite...
...very time when we need to examine every phase of our American race problems with something of Lillian Smith's care and wisdom. To those who believe that the fight against Fascism must begin at home, here is an opportunity to rally enlightened public opinion in order to prevent the recurrence of such an unjustifiable violation of the freedom of the press. F. O. Matthiessen, Professor of History and Literature...
...Koerner also proposed that every serviceman's discharge papers state whether or not he is sterile. Purpose: to prevent the unhappiness caused when sterile people marry with the hope of having children. Servicemen will probably not like Dr. Koerner's proposal. Reasons: 1) though the Army's personnel files are confidential, most men would not like to have their sterility a matter of record; 2) legal complications. Sterility may be grounds for divorce. An angry wife could force her sterile husband to produce his discharge paper in court to prove that he knew he was sterile before...
...grave registration, one of the principal tasks of chaplains on the fighting fronts, is to prevent too many "unknown soldiers." Chaplains are taught to erect simple wooden crosses where men have been buried, and to draw maps showing the position of their graves...