Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monkeys. It was well that the Boy Scouts have an elaborate organization for it undertook no mean responsibility in bringing some 25,000 Scouts to Washington. A staff of nearly 200 doctors was kept busy examining every arrival to prevent any infectious disease getting started. In the first 48 hours only five boys were sent to Naval Hospital where arrangements had been made to hospitalize any Scout requiring more than 24 hours treatment: two had appendectomies, one a broken arm, one a bad case of poison ivy, one mumps. Doctors continued to make daily inspections of all Scouts...
This week from Los Angeles' skyscraper jail where police had taken him to prevent a lynching attempt, came the name of the murderer to Mrs. Dyer. It was her own husband...
Compared to the shame which heaped upon Tennessee when its laws were found Dowerless to prevent child marriages (TIME, Feb. 15),* a domestic relations case up last week in California brought obloquy far deeper & darker. The story reminded newsreaders of the powerful poetry of California's Robinson Jeffers, whose plots of incest the polite public shrinks from as wilful departures from reality...
...number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other names. In its complaint the FTC charged that the two associations deliberately executed eight such practices as exclusive license agreements with wholesalers selling PGA balls, price discounts to members, coercion of nonmember retailers to prevent their selling balls at prices less than those designated by the maker. The effect, said the FTC, "has been unreasonably to suppress competition, bring about unlawful discrimination in prices for goods of the same grade and quality, substantially increase the cost of golf balls to retailers and the public...
...broke and could get no other job. Now he employs 44 diggers and one packer at Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm's fighting element, Stoddard worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care of the breakage." Specially cooled freight cars take three tons of worms into Manhattan every week. Though all other Maine worm dealers...