Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week France, anxious to stay on the right side of Britain and thus prevent Dictator Mussolini from driving his desired wedge between France and Great Britain, let it be known that she would accept the British proposals. This temporarily stalled off things, giving Britain another week to hope that a solution to the dilemma might come from the Spanish battlefields...
...hrer that Czechoslovakia was not impotent Austria; 2) British activity in Berlin and the grave view His Majesty's Government at home took of the situation -in striking contrast to what was done when Austria was being occupied-indi-cated that the British were determined to prevent Herr Hitler's use of armed force to settle the Czechoslovakian Question...
...lawyers and accountants have been toiling almost three years on a study of investment trusts, to be followed by a report to Congress, recommendations for a regulatory law, doubtless a permanent bureau staffed by SEC lawyers and accountants. One of SEC's aims is to prevent capture of one investment company by another (especially when the capture is financed with the captured company's assets), with disregard of minority stockholder's interests...
...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
Doctors have not been able to prevent or cure microcephaly. A few bold surgeons tried splitting too solid skulls lengthwise from forehead to nape, and holding the halves slightly apart with temporary metal wedges. But baby heads grow most from front to rear. Such operations gave room for a short time only for the side-thrust of the growing brain, and most patients shortly died...