Word: warn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's price: 7?). Southern planters were demanding currency inflation and 15? cotton. A loose law made possible the pyramiding of the 4.2? per Ib. cotton processing tax from manufacturer to retail consumer, with the result that the A. A. A. last week had to warn the country against profiteering and price-gouging in the textile trade...
...must admit, something nauseous about this promptitude, something reminiscent of all the vapid press nonsense which accompanied John Coolidge and Allan Hoover to the Business School in 1929. When Florence Trumbull said that John was not to drive a car, when H. H. crisped the wires to warn Allan against the talkies, a gawpish public moved in. Even in those days it was all very unpleasant. Perhaps those Spanish trunk labels hold little promise after...
Almost all that physicians could do for St. Louis sufferers was to isolate them, see that they got careful nursing, warn their relatives not to confuse the disease with infantile paralysis or waste time and money on "cures." Lumbar punctures (to drain spinal fluid), obligatory for the first few days, gave the only relief. Various symptoms must be treated individually as they arise. Some drugs-sodium salicylate, atropine, pheno-barbital-have been helpful in scattered cases in the past...
Socialized Dentistry under government supervision, foreshadowed last winter in the report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care . (TIME, Dec. 5. 1932), was a convention bugbear. From The Hague had come Dr. F. L. Nord to warn that socialized dentistry in Europe has resulted in lower fees for dentists, friction between them and bureaucrats. Dr. A. E. Rowlett, president of the British Dental Association, sent a proxy to read a paper urging U. S. dentists to accept the inevitable, take control of socialization before it is wrested from their hands. His proxy was Britain's first woman...
...brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried to take an innocent-looking but impossible jump in the hunting field. Stephen did not bother to warn him, let him break his neck instead. Then Stephen quietly suppressed the will by which his brother's estate went to Lady Fearless and her small son Nigel, and took possession himself. Conveniently, Lady Fearless was drowned as her husband had been. Young Nigel, whisked away by an itinerant tinker...