Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great problem is how to prevent this apparently hereditary disease. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine published an article telling how various workers had prevented diabetes in animals. Authors: Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin, Reginald Evan Haist and James Campbell of the University of Toronto...
America is preparing. With conscription fully underway our citizens will sleep peacefully tonight feeling their "threatened democracy" is now safe. For only a show of real strength will keep the forces of European totalitarianism at arm's length. But what is to prevent such incipient forces at home from using conscription to promote their own fascism? The Selective Service Act leaves several doors open to such action...
...shoot them down, though I think I could shoot my share of Germans, including German women, German children, German grandpas and German grandmas without any unduly unpleasant digestive aftereffects, albeit I am generally considered a mild, kindly woman. . . . But is there anything in the obligations of civilization to prevent sterilization of all Germans? . . And wouldn't that eventually wipe them off the face of the earth...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...
...summed up in the Bill of Rights. Second would be the political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues. Third, the written laws and constitutions which, together with tradition, protect the rights of the minority on the one hand, and prevent sudden guests of popular opinion from altering the structure of society on the other...