Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence Nightingale, and nursing standards and ideals have kept apace with, if not excelled, those of the medical profession. A perusal of a history of nursing or a visit to any of our modern hospitals would enlighten you regarding one of the greatest professions in the world, and prevent another such faux...
...Archbishop of Canterbury proposed a quite impractical settlement on "Christian" lines, which the Government radio station refused to broadcast. Upon him devolved the responsibility of attempting to prevent the Church of England from being dragged into the acrimonious dispute which followed this action...
Officials Prevent Assembly...
...than a flat net on a long handle, and to control the ball with it was little short of marvelous. The modern mentors of the game saw that a shorter stick with a deeper webbing would make for quicker, castle and more accurate handling of the ball. It would prevent a slowing up of the game by eliminating so much dropping of the ball, common in the earlier days. Also, the shorter stick would permit the players to get the ball into action more rapidly when passing from ore to the other...
...Passed a resolution offered by Senator McNary of Oregon asking the Shipping Board not to sell the American-Oriental Mail Line to the "Dollar Line." The resolution had no legal force, but was adopted merely to bring pressure to bear to prevent a sale which was practically consummated. Mr. McNary objected that $4,500,000 was an insufficient price and that the sale of the line to the Dollars would give them a monopoly in the Pacific...