Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack of appendicitis, two days before the finals, did not prevent Mr. Held from going 35 holes with Ben E. Stein, before capitulating...
Public Opinion. The flood district looks to the Federal Government for a flood-prevention program 'that will definitely prevent a recurrence of this spring's disaster. Proud, the people have almost without exception accepted food and money from the Red Cross with hesitation and apparently with shame, though certainly their destitution has been none of their making. Neither have they set up any loud clamor for Congressional grants of money or supplies, although the feeling that they have been more or less forgotten by the rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee...
...Passed by a majority of 215 the Conservative Government's highly reactionary Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 30), drafted to prevent the recurrence of the British General Strike (TIME...
...theory is that certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer are caused by germs that can grow only in the "absence of free oxygen. The corollary of this theory is that if the body tissues are made to absorb and carry enough air, the oxygen will prevent such germs developing. So Dr. Cunningham puts his patients into shut rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others...
...rays. Metals prevent passage of x-rays ordinarily used. A ring, on an x-ray photograph, is opaque, although the flesh of the finger is transparent. However, Professor George L. Clark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who established the first laboratory for applying x-rays to industry, showed the testers how he detected flaws in steel four-inches thick...