Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole world was waiting to see whether the unprecedented treaty would actually be signed, when the wireless began to crackle. It was the Quai d'Orsay saying that if France was to sign, Morocco must of course stay at home with her lentils. To save his treaty, to prevent his great effort from being turned into a fiasco, Mr. Kellog consented...
...parks contain a total of 92,000 acres of private land, valued at $5,810,261. Senator Walsh and his colleague, Senator Wheeler, persuaded the Senate to amend the appropriation bill so as to prevent wholesale condemnation of these lands without discrimination between commercial projects and private dwellings. The House resented the change, declined to accept it in conference...
...University. He stayed 60 years. Always he mingled with undergraduates, went to proms, games, etc. Callow classmates gave him the special degree of D. P. M.-Doctor of Perpetual Motion. His university career paralleled the expansion of education. New courses and degrees were continually being offered in time to prevent him from exhausting the Columbia curriculum and so losing his annuity...
Traumatic Surgery. Standardization of injury treatment, important for the automobile accident increase expected for 1929. Tannic acid to coagulate scalded or burned tissues and prevent its absorption into the body...
...sold the mortgage to the College, but declared that "if his college wanted the Lampoon Building, it was not for him or his aides to stand in the way of the development of the House plan." His business manager stated that the Lampoon unfortunately, was in no position to prevent foreclosure of the mortgage. Old Lampoon editors, the quondam rivals of the editors of the CRIMSON, and prominent Harvard Alumni, were unanimous in deploring the move made to throttle the Lampoon. "What does it matter if the Lampoon isn't funny", stated a former editor of the periodical, now with...