Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the nose and throat they may carry infections causing what is called lipoid (fatty) pneumonia. Death in infants usually results from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits the use of oils in the noses of infants." Dr. Charles Hendee Smith, another specialist, advised: "Nose...
Schenzvit, ostensibly a land agent, was charged with murder. Arrested with him was a crony, Joseph Miller, a Nazi agent employed by the Third Reich to prevent Jews in Palestine from getting proscribed money out of Germany. Schenzvit had made a fat living during the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, by selling arms to both sides. He also shipped girls to South America, was still doing so until his arrest. Schenzvit and Miller met in Palestine, went into the arms-racket together, had a neat arrangement whereby Schenzvit sold guns to the Jews, Miller to the Arabs. The murdered...
...their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...
...play tag around the mastodons and the paleozoic fossils. Now they're not content unless they carve their initials in the wood exhibits and the display cases. . . . I even used to try to figure out in advance what they were going to do and then try to prevent it. But do you think that helped? Not a bit. Every move I made they were 30 seconds ahead of me." Best-behaved, observed Guide Casey, are rural students. "I can pick them out every time. They take more interest in the displays, try to see everything and learn more than...
...mind of an agent. Since at every step there is a choice of one among five, the subject should make an average of five hits in a run of 25, if nothing but luck or chance entered the situation. There is nothing in the law of averages to prevent him from making ten hits, or 15, or even 20 once in a long while. But if he maintains an average consistently higher than the normal expectancy, the results become significant. Thus, according to Dr. Rhine's mathematics, the odds against making an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries...