Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young surgeon in Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize...
Resentment of unfavorable comment on the part of the Oregon undergraduate body has led to a parallel situation, Irritated by the hostile criticism it attempts to justify its suppressive tendencies with the phrase "to prevent disagreement". It would deny to the Emerald the opportunity to exercise one of the prime functions of an undergraduate publication that of moulding opinion, granting it only the right of reflecting the popular sentiment of the "student leaders...
Baron Kijuro Shidehara sat in his sumptuous, high ceilinged office at the Japanese Foreign Ministry last week, seeking by every means to prevent a clash between Chinese and Japanese in China, and to persuade Great Britain and the U. S. not to follow up their shelling of Nanking (TIME, April 4), with still more vigorous measures to protect Occidental lives and property...
American missionaries have testified in spite of the decision of the State Department that the American fatalities are not the fault of the Cantonese authorities, but that on the contrary the Cantonese have made every effort to prevent them. After all, when machine guns are in readiness at a Chicago election, it is not surprising that men caught in the midst of a Chinese civil war should run unpreventable danger. And yet it looks now as though thousands of our troops will risk their lives to revenge the deaths of hot over a dozen of their countrymen...
...pound class E. G. Dennis '28, Harvard, so far out-classed Albert Corey of M. I. T. that after two and one half minutes the referee gave the decision to Dennis to prevent a knockout...