Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directly with the quality of the carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously he shakes the brush, prevent water from dribbling down his forearm and wetting his sleeve once he starts shaving. Gonk has also, of course, carried out some brilliant research on collar-studs, shoelaces, tin-openers, and the Third Programme atmospherics...
...propagation, and anything in excess of that intent is evil. It is an evil, however, from which no married couple is ever free . . . That which outside of marriage is a mortal sin, within marriage is but a venial sin, provided no artificial device is used to prevent offspring...
...what the dissenting minority called "the most important antitrust case which has been before the court in years," the U.S. Supreme Court last week assayed the question. By a 5-to-4 vote it turned down the Justice Department Antitrust Division's attempt to prevent the sale of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. to Columbia Steel Co., a subsidiary of U.S. Steel...
...long run, De Gasperi knew that to prevent a swing to Communism he would need to deliver some promised reforms. The program he announced last week included general promises: land reform (distribution of big estates) and reclamation, stricter tax collections, relief for Italy's two million unemployed...
...plug Dryad, a deodorant, with a commercial that was too malodorous for Winchell (". . . decaying action of bacteria in perspiration . . ."). Winchell did not need to worry about losing Jergens' $390,000 a year. His network, ABC, rushed in and signed him to a $520,000-a-year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give...