Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princess Mary, the Princess Royal of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, arrived in Austria with her husband the Earl of Harewood last week, first member of the British Royal Family to visit Edward VIII since his abdication. The Baldwin Cabinet, as London newspapers printed last week, intervened recently to prevent the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from going to Vienna. On the platform was Edward, as the Princess Royal's train rolled in. Her favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites (see cut), she greeted him as the English...
...civil war up to the present, and you will see that the misdeeds and atrocities of which our enemies are guilty are but part of the policy to which they intended to subject the whole of Spain in accordance with the dictates of Moscow had we not risen to prevent them...
...rises as high as 300 atmospheres. At the core of the mercury the temperature is 14,000° F., on the inside wall of the tube 1,800°. The lamp is served by a water cooler in which the water must be hurried along in its jacket to prevent the formation of steam bubbles. The heat given off is negligible, since the light of mercury vapor slides off the visible spectrum at the opposite side from the red end where heat waves predominate. The lamp, however, sheds enough red light for filming...
...depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well...
...experience. Of legal education he says: "To tell a law student that the law is what the courts will do and have him reach his conclusions on this point by counting up what they have done is to forego rational analysis, to deny the necessity of principles, and to prevent the exercise of the intellect...