Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Failure of a metal after repeated straining. Small cracks, which sometimes start at tool marks, sharp indentations or other "stress raisers," spread through metal until it breaks. Sufficient strength, correct design and careful fabrication can prevent such failures...
...check again on the victim's neck muscles, breathing, use of legs and arms, ability to speak clearly and to chew food, to measure the degree of lasting damage. This is necessary because the vaccine's usefulness may be of an in-between kind; it may not prevent all polio infections, or even paralysis, but yet cut down the degree of paralysis...
...More Treatment? An immense amount of research must be done to find out what changes in the human body make it prone to infection-and, probably, more years of work to find out how to prevent or reverse these changes. But Dr. Dubos permitted himself a vision of the future: a world in which antibiotics and elaborate medical treatment will not be needed, because the power to resist infectious disease will be built into, and maintained in, man himself...
...Wage increases, when made under the right circumstances, represent an increase in spending or prevent a decrease in spending," he continued. The case for wage increases in a great many industries during a period of recovery is unusually strong...
Reviewing the case of Major Irving Peress, Welch raked McCarthy, saying, "All he did was wave a bloody shirt." He emphasized that there was no law to prevent Peress from getting an honorable discharge at the time he received it. Concluding, Welch refused to discuss the Watkins' committee hearings. "I'll let it speak for itself," he said...