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Word: preventers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orders of brotherly love, and the conclusion was that only about four animals remained unchosen. The New York zoo will have no requests for a wart hog, for instance, not for ant-eaters. If they make good their promise to leave no organization unsupplied, however, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will step in, and prevent them from supplying the Brotherly and Protective Order of Blind Mice with its accepted beast, or from painting up a few amphibia to rent out to the Amalgamated Order of Pink-toed Lizards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRATERNALLY SPEAKING | 5/5/1925 | See Source »

Considerable propaganda was circulated in Germany and abroad, mostly against the candidacy of Von Hindenburg, and it seemed evident that domestic and international pressure was being brought to bear to prevent the election of the 78-year-old soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Presidential Campaign | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Phenolsulphonepthalein," a medicine, to rehabilitate kidneys which are so ailing as to prevent an operation that the patient may need.?Drs. John T. Geraghty and Leonard Rowntree, Johns Hopkins University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemists | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

...Lords Banbury and Lambourne sought to introduce a bill to prevent vivisection of living dogs. The bill was defeated by 77 votes to 8 on the ground that vivisection experiments were of the greatest value to science and therefore to the human race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Apr. 13, 1925 | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear- ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER. There was a picture of Honus in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each spring, Wagner once more dons his uniform, plays "sandlot" ball. If the sheriffalty does not prevent, he is expected to play this year with the "Elks" of the Allegheny County (Pa.) League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Honest Honus | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

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