Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race riots. Therefore the London ultimatum to Cairo, last week, informed Egyptian Prime Minister Nahass Pasha that he must "immediately . . . prevent the Public Assemblies Bill from becoming law," or else expect "His Britannic Majesty's Government to consider themselves free to take such action as the situation may seem to them to require...
...Rochester had died of cancer within 12 years. He was supported by Dr. James Ewing of New York, opposed by Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin, president of the association, who said: "It is almost a criminal thing to recommend the removal of gastric ulcers by operation in order to prevent the possible later development of cancer...
...Liver Oil & Ergosterol. In cod-liver oil, is a substance which contains Vitamin D and which helps both to prevent and cure rickets (bone disease). That substance (provitamin) acts like a solid alcohol (sterol) and is believed to be ergosterol. If ergosterol is exposed to certain wave lengths of ultraviolet light for certain periods the potency of this provitamin is increased so powerfully that, for treating rickets, one ounce of it is as good as six tons of cod-liver oil.-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan...
...asserts in the report of his research that "Africa is the one continent of the world where the application of intelligence, knowledge and good will, it is not yet too late to adopt policies which will prevent the development of the acute racial difficulties which have elsewhere arisen, and the evils of which have been recognized only after they have come into existence...
...plans announced by the Harvard Democratic Club, the convention will be conducted under the same rules that govern the procedure of the Democratic national convention, the audience being split into delegations from the various states with a chairman leading each one. Measures are now being taken to prevent a preponderance of Eastern delegates at the expense of those from the West; it is planned that state representation should be approximately equal...