Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from TIME, April 12, in which Mr. B. Palmer Lewis cites the case of a noted artist who was cured of blindness through the ministrations of a practitioner of Christian Science. He urges this as a reason for opposing the employment of well-known and universally accepted measures to prevent the blindness due to birth infections [TIME, March 22]. The instance cited is as irrelevant to the prevention of blindness in infants as is the popularity of the artist or the names of prominent people whom he has painted. It is important only as it is misleading and might obstruct...
...confident would take place on the Madrid front toward the end of May. Guest von Neurath politely yielded to his host and agreed that "everything permitted by the non-intervention agreement" must be done to insure that German and Italian "volunteers" already in Spain have enough food to prevent their starving, enough guns to prevent their being butchered...
...Ernest Bevin, general secretary of London's Transport & General Workers' Union and one of Britain's most powerful Labor chiefs. Secretary Bevin had a double job on his hands: he had to get the best possible terms for the striking busmen and at the same time prevent the strike spreading to the subways and trams...
...ships from that cause. The Hindenburg was LZ129. Of her 128 German predecessors, ten never left the drawing board, 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked by the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender, two are left-the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst and the sturdy old Graf, which arrived the day after the tragedy in Frankfort from Rio de Janeiro, carrying 23 passengers. She was promptly grounded by the Reich. Having read full reports from Lakehurst, Dr. Eckener announced: "There must...
...Kissner's Folbots cost from $40 to $70, come in five models and two typesצrdinary and heavy duty. The complete craft weighs about 50 lb. A canvas deck keeps out spray, and two rubber notation tanks prevent sinking in case of capsizing. Low-slung, they are hard to tip over. Experts have made the 1,400 miles around the coast of England, the 17,000 miles from England to New Guinea, the 1,500 miles from Manhattan to Chicago. German, British and U. S. submarines are sometimes outfitted with them. As in skiing, German is the language...