Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole course. Unhappily, tutoring is the most expensive means of education, and lecturing the cheapest, precluding for the immediate present the prospect of fulfilling so interesting a suggestion. Nonetheless, it should be borne in mind-meanwhile an attempt should be made so to coordinate the two methods as to prevent the possibility of redundancy...
...there is one last U. S. frontier: Alaska. A few hundred discouraged miners who have turned to farming produce only a small portion of Alaska's food. The rest, $6,000,000 worth per year, is imported. Meantime, U. S. farmers plow under their crops, kill livestock to prevent a surplus. Last January, FERA officials put these facts together, produced their most ambitious rural rehabilitation scheme to date...
Rancidity Preventive. Now that they have learned how to prevent it, chemists revealed that bacon, potato chips, cakes, candy and similar foods become rancid if wrapped in ordinary transparent cellulose sheets. Cause: ultraviolet light which reaches the food through the transparent wrapper. Cure: tinting cellulose wrapping paper with a faint yellow dye which obstructs ultraviolet light...
...from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market. But Mr. Boylan had one ace left. If the court would not let him suspend Rosenbaum Grain, at least he could prevent the company from buying & selling grain, by closing the Exchange, which he did. Before it was opened next day, the court conceded his point, forbade Rosenbaum Grain from trading in its own name. Then President Boylan sat down to devise a scheme for closing out the company's open...
...Board of Health is, however, sending a man to Harvard tomorrow who will remain for several days in an attempt to prevent any more outbreaks. In the effort to prevent recurrence of the attacks. Dr. Means reiterated his plea that sufferers report immediately to the Hygiene Building...