Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phone call from Mr. Jewett late last night brought to light the above mentioned scarcity, which if it continues, will prevent the production of the Repertory's "Salome", featuring one of the Braggiotti's which one Mr. Jewett did not reveal...
Bumke of Munich said that the U. S. methods of sterilizing insane and subnormal persons were "senseless." Doubtless he did not know that in the U. S. (in spite of permissive laws passed last year in Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon and Utah) sterilization, to prevent transmission of mental insufficiency from parent to offspring, is not favored. Top little is yet known about eugenics, U. S. physicians feel, to incur the legal risk of controlling procreation. They feel also that promiscuous sterilization would induce prostitution among women, baser vices among men. Professor Bumke's arguments against such operations duplicated...
Exaggeration is the sphere of the movies. But exaggeration, done well, presupposes imagination. In "Variety" all the clever photography in the world was called into play, and even the censor's shear's could not prevent the film from presenting a vitality which few American films can boast. And "variety" was not the toast of Berlin, either. This is not intended as Europophilia. Everything that comes out of the German movie would is not good. Less than one percent of what comes out of Hollywood is creditable...
Patients will be seen in the order that messages are received, with the exception that any urgent call will be made as soon as possible. Students whose illnesses are not serious enough to prevent their going out should go to the Medical Adviser's office, Wadsworth House, between 8.30 and 9.30 o'clock in the morning, and 4.30 to 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon...
...great reforms in the Italian opera houses [TIME, Sept. 6]. The Ministry of Culture in Berlin has created a special music department in which Dr. Leo Kestenberg is doing important work. "I have heard from leading artists in Central Europe that there is talk of an organized effort to prevent the exodus of the best artists...