Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Centers should be established where alcoholics and their families, clergymen, laymen and the family physician can find out how to prevent and treat alcoholism. (The Council itself will soon establish one such center in Manhattan as a beginning...
...Field, New Hampshire to challenge the Wildcats. Opening with a Harvard score by Jay Hurley, the game was unpredictable until the Blue and White tallied three successive goals at the beginning of the second half. Fourth quarter markers by Dave Thompson and George Angle of the Crimson did not prevent the Wildcats from holding their lead. New Hampshire's attack was sparked by their center, Parker, who netted twice and was credited for three assists...
Then House Republican Leader Joe Martin put the most painful burr of all under the harness. All Congressmen, including Muley Doughton, want to get away for a two-week Easter recess. Martin announced flatly that he would prevent the recess unless the House voted a pay-as-you-go compromise first. Old Muley Doughton grew red-faced and smoking hot, but he still balked...
Though he deplores unnecessarily early deaths from heart disease and advises all precautions to prevent them, Dr. Steincrohn thinks heart disease is the ideal way to die. It should be "the grand climax of life, and it ought to occur near the conclusion of the last act-at about 80 or 90 years...
...have been diverted to building up the war machine. The gap is the root of the price and wage rises, which accompany inflation. The potted plant in the Hellzapoppin show grew no more quickly than does inflation; stabilizing prices and wages only lops off its branches, and does not prevent the rapid growth of the trunk. Unless the roots are killed, more and bigger branches are bound to grow. Obviously the only sound procedure for eliminating the inflationary gap is through taxes and voluntary, if need be compulsory, saving...