Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoying the support of Postmaster James A. Farley, and Fiorello LaGuardia, a friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, Senator Copeland and Tammany counted on having a monopoly on anti-New Deal votes which might turn up a majority in at least the Republican primary. These were not enough to prevent Dr. Copeland from being badly beaten in both battles...
...Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...
Since no one knows how the St. Louis (or other types of encephalitis) is contracted, no one knows how to prevent its spread. As the result of their 1933 experience St. Louis doctors generally feed (give injections of) concentrated glucose solution to sufferers. This is believed to reduce brain inflammation as well as build up a patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood...
...white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered a high-minded athlete who was painfully settling down at story's end to teach his compatriots how to raise themselves...
...droughts. Flood and drought control measures now-being executed with CCC and WPA labor are, fortunately for sportsmen, ideal for restoring duck grounds, and vice versa. Principal engineering problem is to impound and regulate waters in rivers, lakes, marshes. Equally important is the planting of trees to help prevent erosion. Thus in the past three years 200 duck refuges have been created on previously useless land. Last year, for the first year in many, more ducks returned to the breeding grounds than in the previous year...