Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said M. Saracoglu, "we are reasonably sure of peace, for this year, at least. . . . My confidence is founded on the ordinary processes of reason, but in these times logic and the human mind are too often overridden by the illogic of events. Therefore we do not let reasonable hope prevent us from preparing day and night for the unexpected...
Fesler's strategy in the first game was to slow the game up and prevent a mad scramble up and down the floor. Whether he will depend on this plan or whether he will rely on the plays which the team has developed since that game will not be known till the game begins...
...skier with a single pole, fitted at the bottom with a wooden disk to prevent the pole from digging too deeply into the snow, appears in an illustration from a book published in 1664. Norwegian soldiers in 1820 and a California pioneer in 1854 all used a single, Jong pole, as much for a brake on a down-hill run as for support climbing...
...Nelson dealt in New Jersey with the chemistry involved in preserving a fresh water supply; did tuberculosis work in Cincinnati and in Brooklyn; and headed efforts in Sielly during the last war to prevent tuberculosis. He has served with the Division of Geuito-Infections Diseases of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for the past 12 years...
Dogs may have small bones, contrary to popular opinion, but it is better if the animal has nothing pressing it to make it "defensively swallow a bone that is too large for the stomach in order to prevent some other dog, cat, or human from getting this choice morsel...