Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheering news for friends of Finland, who read each day of savage Russian attacks on five fronts (see col. 3), but Sir Walter's if was big. Although British, French, Italian, Swedish and U. S. planes have been fighting in Finland, they have not been enough to prevent the Russians from bombing Finnish cities almost at will. Military experts estimate that it will take only 500 planes to give the Finns equality in the air, and about 250 had been allotted by the Allies up to last week-although not all of these had been delivered. Whether the rest...
...addition, goalie Vint Freedley did not do anything to prevent the game from becoming a rout. To blame him for the defeat would be foolish, but he failed to make anything more than routine stops, and his defensive sallies out from the net were often ill-advised. Sullivan made every one of his chances count, and the game was soon sewed...
Carburization turns a soft iron wire into steel in one minute. The wire is heated in a hydrogen atmosphere to prevent oxidation. The hydrogen, bubbling through alcohol, picks up alcohol vapor. This vapor contains carbon, which inter acts with the hot iron to make it steel. The Westinghouse people devised this exhibit to show the new importance of controlled atmospheres in hardening commercial steel parts...
Broberg leads a strong Dartmouth quintet seeking its fourth League win in five starts so the Feslermen will have their hands full tonight. Lupe Luplen tried to prevent Broberg from breaking into his usual scoring rashes when Harvard met the Cowlesmen last year but had very little success. Ed Buckley and Sam White had a crack at him in Hanover last month, but Gus picked up enough points in the fifteen minutes he played (before being banished on personal fouls) to put the game...
...four little Eleanor was banned from Warwick Square for kicking in the belly a gardener who tried to prevent her wrecking a flower bed. Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack. But "if we were naughty," says Lady Eleanor of herself and friends, "we were certainly never nasty...