Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parking problems are not restricted to Cambridge, for Yale University is facing a similar plight. Reports say that about 600 spaces are available for an estimated 2000 cars. Now Haven police are threatening to enforce parking laws strongly "to prevent theft...
...Public Health Reports, Dr. William H. Sebrell outlined the campaign's goal: not only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn, thyroxine regulates many body functions, including heat production, brain development, sexual maturity, and the growth of hair, skin and bones. A shortage of such an element as iodine, said Dr. Sebrell, may not be indicated dramatically by serious illness: "Just as often, or oftener, the result may be lowered efficiency, nervousness...
...Congressional courtesy" is a code under which an insult can only be hurled if it is politely wrapped and properly addressed. Last week the House of Representatives found it hard to stay within the code. Rumple-haired Al Engel of Michigan sputtered: "The rules prevent me from saying what I would like to say with regard to the delays in the other body...
Iron & Vitamins. The Owenses went a step farther. Vitamin A apparently increases the infant's need for vitamin E, but at the same time it decreases the natural supply of E. In addition, iron added to the prematures' diet to prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...
Fate of Man. To prevent his whale from swallowing his novel, Melville had to create a hero powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...