Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remedies. Senator Gooding and Miner Lewis seemed agreed that the legislation required was amendment of the anti-trust laws to permit the operators to consolidate. Miner Lewis also asked an Interstate Commerce Act amendment to prevent railroads from crushing operators and miners alike, by coal price depression...
...Nichols Medal, coveted by all chemists. Industrial problems had suggested to Dr. Taylor the study of catalytic agents-those substances which accelerate, retard, or even cause chemical change, while remaining themselves unchanged. Catalytic agents are used to vulcanize rubber. Chemist Taylor's experiments have been with substances which prevent rubber from rotting, dyed materials from fading, oil from becoming rancid...
Whirring motors in the air kept Emil Glatt and his wife from sleeping, frightened his chickens to death, made his cows stingy, annoyed his horses. So last week he went to court in Nebraska, asking $10,000 damages from the Standard Aircraft Corporation and an injunction to prevent planes from flying low over his farm...
...this constituted premeditated murder decided the jury. Dr. Rongetti will, unless his lawyers can prevent, die in the electric chair, the first to do so in Illinois, which has hitherto despatched its convicted murderers by hanging...
...free itself from what it considers a disagreeable duty, yet the artificial standards by which modern learning must unfortunately be protected seem to demand it. As for the undergraduates, the majority of whom are honest, they can and do remain personally indifferent to what machinery is set up to prevent cribbing, as has been proved at Yale. On the other hand, the policy of no supervision is merely a concession to the minority, those who detract from the value of education and are themselves least in accord with the desired scholastic attitude...