Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still at the emergency stage. Any measure which officials consider necessary to stop it are justifiable and must be taken. Not until the event has become a part of history should the second and equally important factor be considered, that of allocating the blame and taking adequate steps to prevent its recurrence in the future...
...University recognized that the public was not benefitting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive, and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken out in the name of the University. It was on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson based his defense...
Intellectual eugenics should prevent wish from being father to thought and proved stock should not be too freely bred with fancy strains...
That was one situation that provident Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) tried to prevent, for overextending one's resources was something he never could abide. One of his favorite ways of making money was to buy up notes which people could not pay and then squeeze the debtors to the wall...
...trustees asked the U. S. public for $4,550,000 for new buildings and $8,600,000 for additional endowment, then Johns Hopkins' bones must have had a conniption fit last week. For the trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital were begging former patients to contribute $200,000 to prevent the financially strapped hospital from shutting a large number of its free wards and curtailing its free clinical services. The famed hospital, which takes medical care of 25% of Baltimore's charity cases, found that the interest and dividends on the securities of its endowment portfolio were not sufficient...