Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's hockey team did not leave the ice Wednesday night because the teams had been fighting. Coach Johnny Chase called his men off to prevent a wholesale riot among the large crowd at the New Haven arena...
...there is no longer anyone who has the right to nurture such a belief. Those who head the Communist Party in Norway today are Comintern Communists. Like their fellow workers in other lands, they are disciples of terror and dictatorship. No longer must well-worded declamations be allowed to prevent people from recognizing this brutal fact, even though for many it might constitute a sinister discovery...
Bait. As propaganda against the 75% import tax on U.S. films, Hollywood was showing British audiences trailers of coming attractions that Britons won't be able to see. Cried a member of Parliament last week: "[The Government should] prevent this method of agitating for a change in our fiscal policy...
...helpful, thereby creating a ticklish situation for the Council, Ordinarily, twenty signatures to a petition are required before a group can be chartered. But this technicality should not, in a case when it could be utilized to deny students as effective means of expression, be invoked to prevent a charter. The rule itself is somewhat arbitrary, and in the past it has been circumvented by petitions much more loaded than the present...
Doctors have no prescription that will prevent somebody from dropping an atom bomb. But they continue to worry about what medicine can do to make atomic bombing less frightful for the victims. Last fortnight, at the Navy's invitation, all kinds of doctors (civilian, Army, Navy and the U.S. Public Health Service) met in Bethesda, Md. for a two-week "indoctrination" course in atomic medicine's latest findings. When the doctors went home, they carried no cheery news with them...