Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bombard the Canal from angles out of reach of the land guns. There should be several new batteries of 16-inch guns with a range equal to those mounted by any navy. Toboga Island, nine miles from the western entrance of the Canal, should be equipped with batteries to prevent an enemy fleet from approaching the Canal closely enough to bombard the Miraflores locks. There should be an adequate aeroplane force (100 or 150 planes) to drive off enemy bombers. The Navy should have light cruisers (of which it has none, although Great Britain has 60 and Japan approximately...
...World pitting itself against the war-ruined Old World; others view an American League of Nations in direct opposition to the "European" League-and they are angry. They point to the "egoistic isolation" of the United States and say: "The power of the United States is great enough to prevent the Conference from doing anything which goes against their imperialistic interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine." Canada. John Barrett, former Director General of the Pan-American Union, stated that the question of Canada's entrance into the Union has more popular appeal than any other point of the program...
...August von Wassermann, distinguished German serologist, who developed the so-called"; Wassermann test "for syphilis, announced another achievement in preventive medicine- a method of determining the presence in the body of latent tuberculosis before it becomes active in the lungs. This will enable physicians to weed out the probable victims of the dis- ease. A regime of appropriate diet, rest and fresh air, applied in special schools and at home, will then go far to prevent tuberculosis from claiming those who would formerly have been its prey. Dr. Wassermann's method-he refuses to call it a discovery...
Uruguay has two proposals on the agenda. First, she will offer a plan for an Association of American States-composed not only of the sovereign states of the continent but of those dependent politically on European countries. The aim of the proposed Association is to prevent war by means of financial, economic, and diplomatic blockades...
...Codes Committee of the New York Assembly voted unanimously to kill the Cotillo-Leininger bills, designed to prevent medical "experimentation " on children or animals, after a spirited hearing at which prominent witnesses appeared on both sides. Former State Senator Charles W. Walton, Mrs. Belle De Rivera of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. George Arliss, Mrs. Diana Belais, and others, for the " anti-vivisectionists," appealed to the legislators to prevent alleged horrible practices on poor orphan children...