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Word: preventers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis Pasteur's original Institute in Paris. The first was at Saigon. The Tunis vintners knew of Pasteur's work only that he was able to keep beer from spoiling and silkworms from dying. They demanded that the French Government, their overlord, send them men to prevent their wine turning sour. The French established the Tunis Pasteur Institute (1893), where the scientists quickly learned what spoiled Tunis wine. Then they turned, as Pasteur had turned, to discovering the causes, cures and preventions of human and animal diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prize | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...while working as a chemist in Denver, the Desert Rat captured his idea. He applied for a patent for a side-charging, reverberating furnace. That the patent was delayed did not prevent his peddling the idea to any and all engineers. He showed drawings, explained results. Copper companies, indifferent, rejected both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anaconda's Troubles | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...bones and chopped a ditch around a slab which measured a few inches larger than five by eight feet. We were very fortunate in striking an unusually thick layer of bones, as our slab averaged about 16 inches in thickness. Every care had to be taken to prevent so large a piece from breaking. The slab was thoroughly shellacked, and the edge covered with burlap and plaster. We made a box for it of two-by-six lumber, bolted together. Our greatest difficulty came in turning the slab over, but this was accomplished without cracking it. When the slab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SILVA'S ARTICLE IS UNCONVINCING | 11/2/1928 | See Source »

...believe Mr. Anderson is very confident in his prediction of a landslide for Hoover. I believe he is afraid Smith will be elected. I believe he is another Republican who is afraid of a beating and resorts to the dastardly act of creating vile propaganda to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...proposes to rent them to needy and worthy tenants for only "four and six" a week (4 shillings, 6 pence = $1.09). The ceremony of throwing bread and coals revived an old Essex custom equivalent to "house warming." The flung loaves and chunks are supposed to bring luck and prevent occupants of the new house from ever being without food, warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bread Flung, Coal Flung | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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