Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great work which the Y. M. C. A. is doing in the war zone all over Europe, Asia and Africa, is to provide entertainment for the men in the base camps, the prison camps and the hospitals, in order to prevent them from becoming morose and unmanageable, and thus keep them in better mental health...
...fleet of nine ships was mobilized at Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island, and on August 20 proceeded to Black Island, where the Volunteer Blue Fleet was organized, which attempted to prevent the landing of 40,000 men by the Red Fleet somewhere north of Cape Hatteras. Twenty torpedo boats, together with colliers, supply ships, submarines and an aeroplane completed the fleet. The torpedo boats were sent out to scout for the enemy, and reported its location east of New Jersey, whither the battleships were sent. After several minor fights the Blues were defeated in a large engagement...
...comparison of the University, Yale and Cornell shows that in the major sports Cornell has two championships to her credit, while the University has one. Yale must defeat the University in both the baseball series and the crew race to prevent it from taking these titles, provided the latter wins on the diamond this week. In the minor sports all three have their share of the honors...
...time or vacation, as the representative of an organization not connected with the university, under such conditions not at variance with the spirit of the rule as it may approve. It may also decide cases involving unintentional, technical or trivial violations of the foregoing rules, which are intended to prevent discrimination either for or against a student because he is an athlete...
...tissues. The Equitable Life Insurance Company offers its policy holders an annual free physical examination; so, also, does a group of other life insurance companies. One of these, the Metropolitan, has many industrial risks. The holders of such are visited by nurses employed by the company in order to prevent sickness, and leaflets dealing with the preservation of health are furnished all policy holders. The Eastman Kodak Company has in its employ a trained bacteriologist, having found that some of the films were ruined, as it turned out, by the growth of low forms of life...