Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They live in row houses one block long, keep their windows closed and shades down to prevent the entry of dust . . . and sunshine. Their main items of diet: potatoes, cabbage and squash let them grow beyond the limits of plumpness. They mistrust science and its balanced meal and vitamin instruction, are susceptible to goitre...
Manfully Zurich detectives and policemen worked to prevent Nazis or Swiss Jewbaiters from causing any incidents during the Congress, but at week's end Swiss fascists managed to knock the hat off Rabbi Wolf Gold, once of New York, now of Palestine, and to bloody the nose of a British delegate...
...carrying on according to the laws of the hot season and all is tranquil. It is said that the Reds are preparing to attack us violently, but we hope that the heat will prevent...
Biggest war news from the Spanish front, however, was what went on behind the fighting lines on both sides. At Irún on the Rightist side the Spanish frontier was hermetically closed. Rightists explained : this was to prevent details of the advance on Santander leaking out to Leftist agents. Leftists explained: this was to keep news of new anti-Franco insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason...
...which inculcate national hatreds. Brazil, Argentina and Scandinavia have already made great progress." British Author Philip Noel Baker (The Private Manufacture of Armaments) spoke fervently for international government. An enthusiastic delegate offered a resolution to make the League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training school for teachers until hostilities caused her to leave last summer, came an excited cable from the Catalonian Government promising that 150 Montessori schools would soon be open...