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Word: prevent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothes, which might prevent an epidemic of influence or even pneumonia in the flooded areas, can be sent to those in need through Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE GATHERS 35 BAGS OF CLOTHING | 3/25/1936 | See Source »

Stiffening was too strong a word. The British made unanimous a decision by all Locarno Powers present that the guilt of Germany in remilitarizing the Rhineland was "clear and irrefutable." This did not prevent Captain Eden from telling Ambassador von Hoesch that, if Germany would cut down her new Rhineland garrisons to a total of only 10,000 troops, Britain might be able to wangle France into some kind of deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germans Preferred | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Debated the Prime Minister: "With the view of obtaining collective security, we are members of the League of Nations. . . . Whatever the reason, collective security in the case of Italy and Abyssinia was not able to prevent the outbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Those 71 filterable substances are called viruses. Bacteriologists can cultivate them. With them pathologists can cause disease in all living creatures and plants. Immunologists can use them to prevent diseases. But precisely what they are constitutes one of Medicine's greatest contemporary problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Virus Diseases | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...work of 50 to 100 men. Thrown on the market in the manner of past inventions, it would mean, in the share-cropped country, that 75% of the labor population would be thrown out of employment. We are not willing that this should happen. How can we prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Program for Picker | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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