Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Talking of the slow progress toward peace, he said "the very root of our difficulties" may be a belief by Soviet leaders that another war is inevitable. His thesis was that such a fear, not only in Russia but elsewhere, increases tension and brings about conditions which prevent world recovery...
...Winter Garden. Tired of limp platitudes, the young bloods arose, one after another, to demand clear answers to hard, embarrassing questions. Spearheaded by bright up-&-comer Peter Thorneycroft and bubble-eyed Quintin Hogg, they asked: What is Tory policy on full employment? Do we believe in planning ahead to prevent mass unemployment? Where do we stand on nationalization? In short, what is our policy? From the bandstand, diehard ex-M.P. Sir Herbert Williams made a weary retort: "I don't know why people should worry so much about . . . policy. It isn't a thing you state...
...Committee, with powers, not only to promote interest among the students and faculty, but also to publicize club activities by periodic bulletins, greater coverage in the publications and on the bulletin boards might help fill the gap. Further, this group might coordinate club meetings and special events, to prevent time conflicts and present to the students a single source of information on club events. Most important, a group of this type would be alert to new suggestions for activities, sensitive to all possibilities of publicizing club affairs, concerned with the necessity of expanding the extracurricular program...
...have a cagey system to prevent any post-game pilfering of the goal posts. A concealed sprinkler system every ten yards can be turned on by some hidden hand under the stands...
Three months ago, the Combined Rubber Committee, composed of six countries, had the world rubber situation all figured out. The supply of crude rubber, the Committee thought, would not stretch enough to meet demand for a year or two. To prevent prices from soaring, the price of crude was pegged at 23½ ? a lb., f.o.b. Far Eastern ports. The British Government agreed to buy all Malayan rubber offered at this price. But by last week the pegged price meant little. So much rubber was pouring into Malayan ports that the price was dropping...