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Word: inhibitions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colonies draft their soldier armies and maintain balance in their incredible caste systems was cleared up last week by a Chicago zoologist. The secret: a "social hormone" exuded by some of the ants to inhibit the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Selective Service Underground | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...only amendment which might inhibit the powers that the President had asked was No. 3. But Congress' refusal to "authorize" convoying did not prohibit the President from exercising an authority he already had under the Constitution. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy, he can send armed forces wherever he sees fit. That U. S. naval vessels might, in the end, have to convoy foreign merchant ships, in order to make sure that aid to Britain got to Britain, was a possibility over which opponents of the bill brooded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last Call for Lunch | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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