Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to avoid crowding, the attendance has been limited to 900 people. Both Dining Rooms will be used between 11.40 o'clock and 1.20 o'clock for the Supper. Special tickets with the approximate time for dining stamped on them have been issued by the management in order to prevent confusion in the supper interval. These tickets are printed in groups for each 20 minutes during the two-hour period the Dining Rooms will be open...
...question of the appointment of statutory Federal employes; so a compromise was written to allow the President power to appoint them "by and with the consent of the Senate," without mentioning any procedure for their removal. Then in 1867, the Tenure of Office Act was passed to prevent the President from removing certain classes of postmasters. Last week's decision declares the 1867 act unconstitutional, and interprets in the broadest sense the President's power of removal...
...crowd or remain to hear the chattering die into nothingness. Perhaps these good people are too small a number to merit the grand chords which once were theirs. Yet that, only a person of little sensibility can defend. Even minor traditions must be flaunted occasionally in public to prevent their too easy death. And this custom of Sunday noon recitals is too good and too worthwhile to die without a very justifiable reason...
Teeth. "Decay of the teeth is prevalent in 80% to 85% of the people. . . . After rigid investigation we have definitely concluded that the decay of the teeth is specific infection, just as specific as tuberculosis or typhoid fever. Cleaning the teeth will not prevent decay, but will lessen the possibility of it. Decay is accentuated chiefly by the excessive eating of sugar," said Professor Russell W. Bunting of Michigan University before the same meeting...
Fumbling at critical moments, and the inability to understand an aerial attack, did not prevent Cornell's team from beating Michigan State...