Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among stringent divorce States, New Jersey prepared to fight; New York, to yield. Said New Jersey's Representative Donald H. McLean: "There will be resentment from other States whose public policy has been to prevent mail-order and perfunctory divorces." New York's Solicitor General Henry Epstein disagreed. Said he: "This is a great step forward in securing uniform divorce laws for the country...
Stalin still had the magnificent will to resist of the Russian people-who had as much claim to glory as the British people had when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...
...press conference in Vichy before he set out for Paris, Quisling Laval presented himself to the press as a "different" man from the one "you have known . . . with a parliamentary halo." Said he: "I want Germany to win . . . Germany's victory will prevent our civilization from foundering in chaos. . . . An American victory would bring in its train the triumph of Jews and Communists...
...cure is yet to be found-treatments in use are eyewashes and applications to reduce swelling. Drs. Hogan and Crawford published their article so that physicians, especially in areas like Detroit, which the disease has not yet reached, can learn to recognize it, isolate patients early to prevent further spreading...
That well-informed Japs expect no quick and easy victory was underscored last week when the Tokyo radio announced that the Government would reform the important Tokyo Stock Exchange "to stabilize fluctuations" (i.e., prevent panics) and "establish a financial structure which would fit into the prosecution of a long-term war." The action followed persistent selling which has lowered leading stocks as much as 35 points since the Battle of the Solomon Islands began...