Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groups will work with their commanding officers in order to promote House unity and spirit, while the joint committee will also meet with the inter-House committee in order to prevent conflicting dates in House socials...
...knee joints. But scar tissue that forms afterwards usually makes the joint surfaces stick together, causing stiffness that is often only partly relaxed by a slow, painful course of exercises. Surgeon McKeever thought that if he capped the sliding surfaces of the joints with a smooth material, he might prevent scar tissue adhesion, keep the surfaces moving freely...
After that, Surgeon McKeever operated similarly and successfully on other civilians. Since joining the Navy he has used cellophane on elbows, finger joints, hand joints, even between muscle layers and around tendons. He now believes that cellophane can be used in many kinds of operations to prevent adhesion of two surfaces...
...plan seemed to have a chink as wide as a Flying Fortress. What was to prevent laid-off workers from getting jobs in other shipyards outside the Puget Sound area (such as Henry Kaiser's yard at Vancouver, Wash.)? Also, many smaller plants in the area are understaffed, pay more under the WLB freeze than Boeing...
...such a world, there would be four dominant nations: the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, England in its far-flung British Commonwealth, Russia in Europe, China in the Far East. Each would try to prevent warfare in its own sphere and avoid conflicts with the rest. If they joined in any sort of international organization it would be loose and informal. They would try to postpone another war -but would never ascend to such idealism as thinking of World War II as a war to end wars...