Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost 200 years physicians have known that a few spoonfuls of orange or lemon juice every day will prevent the painful hemorrhages, loose teeth, swollen legs and brittle bones of scurvy. Scurvy is still a disease of Dixie farmers, many of whom do not get enough fresh fruits or vegetables containing antiscorbutic Vitamin C, but last week it was also ravaging Yankees in Maine...
...impractical because, by barring totalitarians from his laboratories, Bridgman does not prevent them from obtaining the information contained therein. If anything of military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom...
Both games were wild and wooly affairs with plenty of excitement provided by each team, but the Crimson sextet last night was a thoroughly played-out team after the Montreal tilt the night before and was hardly in a position to prevent the league-leading McGill outfit from staging a walk-away victory...
These steps: would prevent the commission of a grave injustice. They would forestall the loss of the most popular and successful teacher in Fine Arts. But beyond this, they would possibly lead to fundamental changes in the department which, in view of its unparalleled resources, would make Harvard one of the world's leading centers of art culture...
Attempts to "force the retreat of justice before power," it warned, "will only delay and complicate" but never prevent the solution of world problems...