Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised earthen platform some 50 feet square with a portico at one end), instruments are kept in locked rooms, loudspeakers installed out of reach. Each evening at sunset an automatic device switches on the sets, turns them off after one hour of blaring. Automatic operation is necessary to prevent ryots from damaging the sets either through ignorance or anger...
That a law designed to prevent monopolists from gorging themselves on the fat of the land should be used to counter the opposition of American doctors to socialized medicine is extraordinary. Yet the "smart young men" of the Justice Department, in charging the Washington Medical Society with violation of the Sherman Act on grounds of restraint of trade, are doing precisely this in their efforts to prevent the doctors' organization from blackballing members for healing under group auspices...
...harassed old Moe Annenberg, the week's woes reached a climax when Senator Joseph F. Guffey singled him out for unmeasured denunciation in a campaign speech over Station WFIL. When an advance summary of the speech reached the Inquirer's offices, Annenberg attorneys tried frantically to prevent its delivery. Next morning, swashbuckling Moe made news indeed when, unmindful of political and journalistic tradition, he sued for libel Senator Guffey, Station WFIL and its president, Samuel R. Rosenbaum; Mr. Stern and the Record, which published the full text of the speech...
...public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...
...consists of: 1) the cortex (scaly outer layer), 2) elasticum (inner layer), 3) core. If soaked in water, the elasticum and core contract, pulling the cortex with them and shrinking the wool 10 to 30%. For years chemists have searched for a way to "lubricate" these inner parts to prevent shrinking, but most of them failed.* The treatments either made the wool scratchy, bleached its dyes or damaged its durability. Last week the U. S. granted two patents on processes which make wool shrink-proof but promise not to harm...