Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young life to have saved the lives of his father's subjects. Before and since Edward became King, he has made every effort to find a basis for peace in Europe. He has been balked by a group which contains some of the very men who failed to prevent the World War. They want the King to be a model of clothes and morals, while they continue to muddle the foreign affairs. Let people choose their own clothes and look after their own morals. After all those are private matters...
...reason newspaper men in this State have difficulty in visualizing Publisher McCormick in such a role is this: In 1932 the State Press Association invited Colonel McCormick to speak at their convention being held in this city. McCormick accepted and later wired that an overlooked previous engagement would prevent his attendance. The press had laid great store by his coming and wired back it would change the convention date to suit his convenience, if he would come...
...gasoline filling stations be equipped as first-aid stations for highway accidents (TIME, Nov. 9), is surgery of the brain and spinal cord. To Neurosurgeon Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...
When the neck is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on a plank so that he rests face upward, and under no circumstances with the head tilted forward. This is the best position to prevent movement of the fractured cervical vertebrae...
Without consent, which to prevent we never had the power...