Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the victim of far too many long-distance touchdown gallops in the past few years. Slight defensive lapses have proved fatal. This present Crimson team seems to be capable of heads-up play for 60 minutes of football. The line is more rugged and should be able to prevent too many long thrusts, but the backfield may be vulnerable to forward passes. Lee and Heiden are quite definitely short, while Spreyer and Gardella are about six feet. They looked lost trying to cope with a man like tall Harlan Gustafson of Penn last year, and there may be more...
...McLaughlin, professor of Law, joined President Conant in arguing for aid to Britain and active defense measures on two grounds: that democracy must be preserved and that America could not be ideologically isolated and still preserve democracy; and that it was to the direct military interest of America to prevent an Allied defeat...
Ogilvy's first story was headlined in bold red ink: "Stock show managers working like beavers; rapidly getting ready for exposition that means so much to western breeders; how to prevent horses slipping on streets." He has been writing similar stories ever since, is a shrewd judge of horseflesh
Doctors do not know the cause of cancer, nor can they prevent a tumor from spreading and migrating. Their only hope, in treating the disease, is to catch a malignant tumor early, burn it with X-ray or cut it out. Last week, in the Archives of Surgery, Dr. Frederick Madison Allen of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital suggested a new way of killing cancers: suffocation...
Chester had his first affair (with a Creole cousin) at nine, now has a young married woman as his mistress. Ashamed of his family (his brother is a prize fighter), Chester is often depressed, fears that poverty may prevent him from going to college and becoming a doctor. Once a white man chased him with a gun because, while hawking newspapers, Chester refused to stop yelling: "Louis K.O.'s Braddock." Chester says he hates white people. When white folks humiliate him, he "sees red," but is afraid to fight back...