Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep distress selling of the estimated $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 worth of Anglo-French-owned U. S. securities from cracking the market, already depressed by widespread bearishness on domestic business prospects, obvious aids would be: 1) to relax margin requirements to protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until...
While the nation pondered these prosaic devices to protect it from disaster brewing abroad, up popped a trial balloon for a scheme far from prosaic. The balloonist: William Stix Wasserman, a big, self-assured Philadelphian...
President Roosevelt and high navy officials advocated the measure as a vital link in the network of defenses which the government is forging to protect the United States and its possessions against attack from the sea or skies
...Shall we be content to sit idly . . . or shall we use [our] great advantages carefully, moderately but firmly and above all intelligently to help protect the world, which includes ourselves, from its imminent and continuing danger...
...base of the skull, gently pushes aside the soft cerebellum in order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under a local anesthetic, which deadens only the scalp nerves. Strangely enough, gentle manipulation of a bare brain produces no pain...