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Word: prevents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...There you are, gentlemen," said Winston Churchill, commenting on the Libyan battle. "On strategy we are all right. If a giant came and stood in front of that door to prevent our leaving, he would be strategically right. But if we kicked him in the stomach, trod on his face and left by the door, tactical operations would have vitiated all strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Hanging Fire | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Japanese have a different situation on their hands in Formosa. Apparently they mistreated the mountain people there who did not accept Nippon rule. So the Japanese had to content themselves with enclosing their mountain province in an electrically charged barbed wire fence to at least prevent hostile tribes from raiding the civilized lowlands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTHROPOLOGIST CLAIMS WILD MEN CIVILIZED AS STUDENTS | 12/5/1941 | See Source »

...promote safety among skiers, to prevent accidents, and to take care of those unfortunates who do get into trouble, the rapidly expanding Harvard Safety Patrol was formed early last Spring by a group of enthusiastic college skiers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Skiers Prepare For Winter Snows | 12/5/1941 | See Source »

...serious criticism. In a long letter to the London Daily Sketch's Lord Kemsley "on America's place in world affairs" McCormick wrote: "If it were necessary, and I write this after mature consideration, I believe that many Americans would volunteer to aid you in arms to prevent your being conquered, and I am one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Newspapers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...important to observe, furthermere, that the Sovieet air force has evidently been strong enough thus far to prevent German bombers from distrupting the communications system. As long as this ratio is maintatined, the large oil supply in Bakn, more than 700 miles from the frout, and the coal and from reserves in Siberia are expected to be of immense value to the Russians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karpovich Says Retreating Russian Forces Can Hold Out Indefinitley | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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