Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They decided not to dig any further in the open excavation, and concentrated instead on the narrow shaft. All that hot, still afternoon, the big drill ground away. The shaft had to be lined by 24-in. casing, to prevent a cave-in. It was Saturday, and all afternoon the crowds thickened. By midnight, 12,000 were standing in the chilly spring night-grave, subdued neighbors, sightseers and dating teenagers, men & women in evening dress. In a car a little back from the scene, David Fiscus and his wife sat out their vigil. To sympathetic queries, he said wearily...
...such extensive burns ever to pull through. Still in the hospital, he is now a thin, slight figure wrapped from neck to feet in bandages. His frail legs are bound to stiff splints to keep them from twisting. Pulling Mike through has been a long and complicated job. To prevent the formation of blisters and the deadly "white hemorrhage" (loss of body fluids and proteins through the raw, granulating flesh), Dr. Young covered Mike's burns with vaseline gauze, swathed him in a massive (five inches thick) supplementary pressure dressing of mechanic's waste...
Bush cited examples of how food production could be further increased; they ranged from the treatment of cows with penicillin-to prevent cattle disease which costs Europe 5,000,000 tons of milk a year ("and that will feed a lot of babies") -to controlled photosynthesis and improved fertilizing through methods discovered in the course of atomic research...
...Radek, Soviet Russian agent in Germany after World War I, who pointed out that nationalism could become the vehicle of Communism in a synthesis which he called "national Bolshevism." It was Radek who explained to the Comintern executive committee that the nationalism of the German "masses" did not necessarily prevent them from turning to Communism. A great many forces in West Germany are conspiring to bring the ghost of Karl Radek and national Bolshevism back to life...
...least six occasions, the name of the University crept into testimony, for and against the proposed measure to prevent the employment by Massachusetts educational institution of faculty members who "advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States of America by force or violence...