Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much political capital was made out of the death. Socialists were accused by their opponents of murdering the young lad during recent political riot. This was denied, but nothing could prevent the Pan-Germans and Catholic bourgeoisie from making the funeral into a political demonstration against the Jews and Social Democracy...
Goiter. Seaweed in the diet would prevent goiter, in some degree cure it. Half the young girls between the Atlantic Coast and the Rocky Mountains suffer from incipient goiter. Girls on the Pacific Coast are remarkably free from it So said Dr. J. W. Turrentine, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...Churchill, who had been listening to the indictments of his pusillanimity with a wry smile, jerked himself to his feet to confound his critics. He had tried, said he, to settle a naval building policy in order to prevent yearly friction between the Admiralty and the Treasury. The Admiralty had proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided...
...energy in the conduct of the war will not be less than our desire for peace. Every precaution is being taken to prevent heavy losses to our troops, but the Riffians and Djebalas must submit and accept the just and generous terms which France and Spain are offering them...
Whooping Cough. First it was icefloes (TIME, July 20). Then it was mosquitoes (TIME, July 27). Last week it was whooping cough?no very fearsome obstacle but enough to prevent Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Pole-seekers from stretching their legs ashore on Disko Island, Greenland, where urchins* were reported to be hacking, whooping, spraying germs abroad all up and down the rock-strewn coast...