Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troubles with this advertisement were that no arms were being exhibited for sale at the Old Manchu Arsenal, and that there were no such persons as Romulus & Remus, Auctioneers. Editor Woodhead was merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking...
Many an able doctor uses colonic irrigations expecting thus to clean up a focal infection causing a systemic disease like arthritis; to take a load off a weak heart; to prevent absorption of poisonous fecal matter into the system...
...attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft palate has learned to prevent consonantal sounds from rumbling into the nose. Then speech is perfectly clear...
...LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball's Landis and cinema's Hays, to tell them what kind of pin-game operation is legal, to intercede with authorities on their behalf when necessary, to help prevent "racketeers" from gaining control of the industry. For Pin Tsar, the Amalgamated Operators' Association, the Greater New York Operators' Association, the Metropolitan Jobbers' Association and the Skill Games Board of Trade chose no less a personage than Major General John F. O'Ryan, onetime (1934) Police...
...forth by the inventor, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Said Professor Visscher: "Taken from the patient during the last stages of pregnancy, when she has stored UP a healthy surplus of rich blood, the reserve blood is treated with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate transfusions without the sometimes fatal delay of searching for a professional or other donor of suitable type...