Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joining 102 other prominent Americans the five signed a statement urging lifting of the ban and establishment of a national educational policy to prevent the "suppression" of ideas...
Nevertheless, he could not prevent the Council from discussing the issue. When newsmen asked Vishinsky what he would do, he grinned and said: "Let us not worry. Everything will be clear in its own time." During one of Vishinsky's tirades, the radiophone translation system broke down. While Vishinsky sputtered in Russian, shrill sounds filled the receivers. Delegates frantically waved their arms. In the face of a laughing audience, Vishinsky finally demanded that his statement be postponed "until in this room, science and technique take the place they deserve...
Language for thirst and fear, did most to Prevent a panic. It is the crime that...
...from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead, up from vice president in charge of sales to replace Chesly Robert ("Bob") Palmer who, at 65, had decided to take...
...doctrine of the Church calls contraception "murder," hence "against God's law." It is, according to this thesis, the duty of the Church to prevent all men, whether Catholics or not, from committing such a crime. This is indeed a difficult argument to answer on its own grounds. In this nation, however, the question of murder is a legal rather than a sectarian matter. It is not, therefore, relevant to argue it on a religious level. And when the Church attempts to force such doctrines on the state, it challenges the fundamental precept of a free society...