Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent position to help preserve the unity of the class. The creation of an Inter-House Freshman Committee to replace the present Union Committee would serve as a unifying force for class exercises and entertainments, and a weekly system of House dinners for the Freshman, would prevent too limited a circle of friends. In these ways the Houses have a chance to prove convincingly that they are superior to the elaborate dormitory and fraternity system of other colleges...
This June and July will be the crucial months for the Russiaus, and thus for all the nations that depend on Russian success. If Russian resistance is firm Hitler may have to decide whether to retreat or immobilize the front, he said, and it was precisely to prevent such trench warfare that the Rusisaus waged offensive warfare last winter when they attacked all along the extended front, and constantly harried the German troops...
...Illinoisans Miller, Ettinger and others are satisfied with Kelly-Nash's Raymond McKeough and Colonel McCormick's Curly Brooks, that is as it should be. If the majority of Illinois' 7,897,000 citizens do not really admire such candidates, yet were not roused to prevent their nominations, that is as it should...
...nation's greatest concern was far across the seas. Russia must not be allowed to fall if U.S. aid can prevent it. Russia's fall would turn loose on Asia and Africa a terrific Nazi army, an army of millions of men, thousands of planes and thousands of tanks, an army big enough to fight on a 2,000-mile front-as it is now doing...
Forest sabotage is no wartime novelty. The U.S. experienced it in 1917-18. As mile after mile of tall timber was reduced last week to black stumps the Forest Service schemed to prevent any more Axis-scorched earth in the U.S. Throughout the Pacific Coast's 91,940,000 acres of timberland an abnormally wet winter and spring have nourished lush, thick vegetation, highly inflammable once it dries. Men were already in training in Washington State's breadbasket to fight grain fires in June...