Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdoor athletics and arrange for inter-playground competition. For example, he has organized 64 basketball teams and arranged 393 games for them this winter. If many children still ignore these facilities, it is possibly because fields are lacking in their neighborhood and great traffic arteries, such as Massachusetts Avene, prevent their going far afield. P. B. H. men could act as recruiting officers, rounding up youngsters and convoying them to the grounds, but any children they attempted to care for privately would be deprived of the city-wide playground program...
...possibility that a boycott can prevent the sale of any great part of the silk hosiery turned out by U. S. manufacturers (42,000,000 dozen pairs in 1936) or throw the 90,000 workers in the industry out of a job seemed slim. About 65% of silk hosiery machines in operation can be converted to lisle or rayon production without much loss. Tide last week reported that during the last two months 55 manufacturers have begun to make lisle hosiery although only five did so before...
...answer and to show his ability. Immediately after the examination these men convene once more to set up a list of answers not exclusive nor absolute, for latitude is needed to make up for variations in the approach to a question, to allow for unanticipated points or conditions. To prevent discrimination, the papers are corrected blind...
...said that his country was doing all in its power to prevent repetition of such an event as the Panay affair. "The naval officer who was in command of the aircraft squadron in Shanghai has been dismissed and recalled home," Saito revealed. "All other necessary steps are being and will be taken so that guarantees of safety will be assured all foreign persons and interests in the future...
...poppy's drowsy seed, very valuable and very light, was the logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands of dollars' worth very satisfactorily on its back. Just as logically, "Uncle Fred" Delano's commission returned to Geneva and recommended that one good way to prevent the world's being flooded by Persian opium was to build the Persians a railway so they could ship something else. Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran...