Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...weather did not, however, prevent the Crimson crews from taking their daily practice row, although choppy water made rowing uncomfortable, and a chilly breeze which, arose late in the afternoon helped to stir up the Charles still more...
Englishmen desperately needed the jobs, and these particular 500 Englishmen were grimly resolved to prevent the Lyle Line from signing on another crew of Negroes...
...played down by British editors. Example: "Several Englishmen and two Somalis were gravely injured by knives and razors. . . . The whole police force of North Shields became engaged and was forced to charge time and again before quiet was restored. Even then the police were able with much difficulty to prevent the lynching of several Somalis who had fallen among rough hands...
...differ from you. . . . In my judgment, you have insulted your country, insulted the churches of the U. S. and insulted en masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start the War, were powerless to prevent the War, but once drawn in ... prayed and fought for victory and peace. . . . You have no right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. . . . I know...
Justice Bailey granted them their order against Secretary Wilbur on the ground that the purpose of the Act of 1920 was "clearly to promote the prospecting for oil," not to prevent it; that Congress had given the Secretary of the Interior discretion in granting drilling permits but no authority to deny them all as a matter of administrative policy. Ruled Justice Bailey...