Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking before a Stanford University audience, Hooton laid out a triple-headed campaign for raising the quality of society and securing the peace. Universal birth control "to prevent the incompetent from reproducing their kind," the weeding of social misfits from the educational system, and concerted efforts to raise the "low I.Q." of governments were proposed by Hooton...
...comely niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot. He had got started on his crusade when he served as "veteran aide" to Delegate Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference. There he saw the United Nations born. He deplored the veto, which left U.N. virtually powerless to prevent aggression...
...first sight, the Barnes Bill could appear to be an unextravagant little document--unextravagant, certainly, in an era notable for the existence of the government loyalty tests and the J. Parnell Thomas Committee. The Bill is entitled as an act to "prevent Communists and others who advocate the overthrow of government by force, violence, or other unlawful or unconstitutional means from being employed as teachers or otherwise in institutions of learning or schools or in the public education system." Although anyone who calls himself a liberal would scarcely approve of such a bill, it might will be considered as acceptable...
...head and worms in the intestines. For centuries, the onion's medicinal value has been praised by witch doctors, old wives and bartenders. Rome's Pliny the Elder listed the onion as a cure for 28 diseases. Early New England settlers believed that the onion would prevent fits; Neapolitans of the Middle Ages thought it averted the evil eye. A 16th Century French surgeon, Ambroise Parè, used it instead of ointment to heal powder burns...
...produced by the complicated enzyme activity that goes on in the onion when it is cut. Cooking would eliminate it completely; a boiled onion is no more good for a cold than a boiled turnip. But chewing a raw onion might help a cold (it would undoubtedly prevent spread of colds by keeping non-onion eaters away from the cold sufferer...