Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...
...daughter of Lord Birkenhead, made public complaints, last week, when she heard that Gypsies were to be excluded this year from Epsom Downs during the running of the Derby. Lady Eleanor knows the Romany language, likes to visit Gypsy caravans. The ban was imposed for sanitary reasons and to prevent a neighborhood nuisance...
...interceptor interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...
...champions of champions," almost the whole Italian press spent the week in working itself up to a purple pitch of fury-even demanding that Italy, as one of the seven guarantors of the first League of Nations loan to Austria, should use her veto power to prevent the Austrian government from floating another loan (TIME, April...
...students also seems capable of extension with no very great difficulty. The trouble of answering a question or two and the time taken up by directing less advanced men even with all the members of a course working at once as is now the case is not enough to prevent the instructors from doing much work in their own laboratories. One seems justified in assuming that a sufficient number of graduate students could be found who would be glad to offer this service in the evening in return for the increased opportunity for working in their adjoining private laboratories...