Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of coming out and asking for a direct repeal of both Section 6 (the ship-arming ban) and Section 2 (the combat zone restrictions which prevent us from sending our merchant ships all the way to England), the President preferred to be strategic. He "recommended" that Congress concentrate its efforts on voting down Section 6 alone, and save the other section for "early consideration...
...withholding restrictions on wages," Taylor continued, "we will achieve a real democratic victory and will prevent class bitterness. Moderation on the part of managers, employers, and the government is the only feasible means of solving the present trouble...
...Japanese, therefore, celebrated the anniversary last week with reserve. Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda made a speech in which he emphasized the peaceful character of Japan's designs, her desire, as an Axis partner, to prevent the extension of World War II. Since the pact was approved by Premier Prince Konoye and most of the present Cabinet, since it was blessed by the Son of Heaven, this was as far as a polite Japanese Minister could go in the way of saying that the pact did not mean anything...
When the, medical and training department was first set up on the ground floor of the Field House with instructions to prevent all foreseeable accidents and to cure all the inevitable ones, the American Medical Association, which licenses such places, could not find a classification for it, since no other University boasted one of comparable size. It was too large and well equipped to be a dressing station, and it wasn't quite big enough to be a hospital. So they compromised, and it has been known ever since as a first class industrial hospital...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...