Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berlin received its first shipment of "real" bananas in a year. The word "real" was inserted in the despatch to prevent confusion with the well known German song, Ach, wir haben keinen bannanen, heute. Shipments arrived from Holland and England and 60,000 cases were placed on the market at the Hamburg docks. Heretofore the anti-luxury act has forbidden bananas, oranges...
...While it is perfectly comprehensible that the sort of thing which occurred at Concord and Bridgewater should arouse a considerable amount of justifiable anxiety on the part of the public, it is nevertheless the duty of authorities whose only excuse for existence is to prevent disease and suffering, to judge such situations on the basis of eventual good to the community as a whole, and not allow a well-proven instrument of preventive medicine to be destroyed or neglected because of an accident the cause of which is known and therefore under control...
...result of the Teapot Dome scandal no member of the Administration for the past three years can be elected to the Presidency: "regardless of whether Secretaries Daugherty, Denby, and Fall are vindicated", he says, the discarding of the policy of the conservation of the national resources will probably prevent the election of such a candidate...
...mind nearly wrecked the treaties negotiated at the Naval Limitation Conference in the autumn of 1921, particularly the four power Pacific pact, which was not ratified until President Harding told the Senate, "Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery." The same state of mind thus far has prevented ratification of the Harding-Hughes proposal that the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice, on conditions carefully devised to avoid membership in the League of Nations, although Mr. Harding declared...
...rink which was just thickly enough covered with falling snow to prevent fast playing, the Freshman hockey team nosed out a victory over St. Mark's School at Southboro yesterday by a 1-0 score...