Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid, well-planned and boldly executed, wrote a striking tactical lesson: superiority in the air cannot prevent isolated, successful enemy assaults. For Allied peoples, already overconfident of continued victories, it was a lesson to remember...
...prevent a recurrence" of such "regrettable confusions" as Reuters' beat on the Cairo Conference, the Tass's ditto on Teheran, Franklin Roosevelt announced a new policy...
...prevent colds, Pediatrician Joseph Stokes Jr. and Dr. Tzvee N. Harris used propylene glycol vapor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942) last winter to spray the air of six wards containing 105 children at the Children's Seashore House in Atlantic City. While the wards were being sprayed, three children came down with colds. While the wards were unsprayed, 79 got colds...
...prevent the infections which often follow colds, Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors have developed a sulfadiazine spray. Of two groups of nurses, one used the spray; the other group was untreated. Only 9.7% of the sprayed nurses got sinus trouble, 8% wound up with coughs, 1.8% had ear trouble, none got laryngitis or sore throats. Of the unsprayed nurses, 30% developed sinus trouble, 44% had coughs, 4.5% had ear trouble, 2.3% lost their voices and 10% got sore throats...
Cough drops and aspirin have boomed 20 per cent around the Square, but the most popular nostrums are pills of vitamins A and D, which are popularly believed to prevent or cure colds, although the Hygiene Department claims that no such value has been evidenced...