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Word: prevents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis were apparently nursing their supplies and their flyers for an all-out assault on the Middle East and Russia. But with the R.A.F. hitting harder & harder, it looked as if Göring would have to get off his heels and do some fancy toe dancing to prevent the British from wrecking Nazi plans, throwing Hitler's timetable out of kilter again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Second Aerial Front | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

CALAMITY TOWN-Ellery Queen-Little, Brown ($2). The prescient Mr. Queen, unable to prevent the poison-murder he foresaw, probes small-town family histories for an unexpected answer to an intricate and beguiling mystery. The best Queen story in several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Bingham's previously-stated stand of asking for a suspension of the agreement if a game was requested. The portion of the agreement prohibiting football practice before September 1 has already been lifted for the duration, but those sections formed to limit schedules to eight games and to prevent the season from beginning before the first Saturday in October still stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gridmen May Add Carolina Air Base To '42 Opponents | 5/1/1942 | See Source »

...Faculty members felt and still feel that all men who attend the College should be able to present evidence of having read these classics. Present chemistry and physics concentrators do not know how close they have been to taking the examinations along with the modern language men to prevent their becoming one-sided. Even now, the University's reluctances to allow its members to go all out for science is reflected in the projected course in Great Authors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Past is Still With Us | 4/29/1942 | See Source »

...Forum is to fulfill its considerable promise, the quality of speakers must be kept consistently high. Vigorous student participation must prevent it from beginning the happy hunting grounds of any group or point of view. Political decisions are now a matter of life and death; students can no longer avoid them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everybody's Business | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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