Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concluding he complained of being surrounded by spies, whose busi- ness, he contended, was to prevent him from "endangering the world...
...Smith waited to be delivered of her baby; a Mrs. Harry Conrad Smith waited to be delivered of her baby; and a Mrs. Mathew Smith waited to be delivered of her baby. Each knew not of the others; each trusted in the devices which hospitals use to prevent newborn babies from getting mixed...
...there were other things to be thought of, sighed elderly Parisians, who remembered well the wartime antics of les soldats americains. Certain hotels and restaurants were made by a well-disposed government to standardize their prices in order to prevent profiteering. Police went around cleaning up the streets, arresting those "who nightly seek adven-ture," raiding "certain low class places." Declared Le Petit Bleu: "It is perhaps conceivable?with-out being excusable?that we might receive badly those Americans who came to France to amuse themselves and who wish in our noble, laborious country only those amusements not French except...
William Randolph Hearst published in his Mirror: "I will gladly give $25,000 to the captain and the crew of the ship which finds them." He also published telegrams through which he said, "I did my best to prevent him [Philip Payne] from going." Also, a telegram sent to Editor Payne prior to the flight: "I will not assume responsibility, but will proceed only if the Government will assume authority and responsibility." Editor Payne replied: "Secretary of Aviation F. Trubee Davison and Department of Commerce pronounce...
...Colonel Dessiter has possession of the worldwide schemes of the Communists including the Chinese situation, India, Europe, the U. S.?everywhere. Now Miss Brown has possession of them too and since Colonel Dessiter is mortally wounded she must carry out his remaining duties to save the nation, to prevent an instant world...