Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect cities from airplane bombardment. Suspended horizontally on springs, the net would catch the bombs as gently as if they were circus acrobats, prevent them from exploding...
...wool buyer who cannot understand the 10? more he must pay to get the raw product. Actually, of course, there is no such direct connection between the future price and the spot price. As on other commodity markets, wool dealers trade in futures largely as a hedge to protect their wool inventories, virtually never make actual delivery in the commodity itself...
...finds he is able to save certain of his crops from insects and other pests by the use of poisonous and semi-poisonous chemicals, or with the universities and hotels who must buy such impure supplies; the blame lies with the governmental agencies, who, ignoring their duty to protect the public health, allow tainted food supplies to reach the ultimate consumer...
...riot he must be among the rioters; in a parade, one of the paraders; at a feast, often the unbidden guest. He sizzles at a fire and gets chilblains at a flood. He has been insulted and assaulted so often that some sympathetic States have enacted special legislation to protect...
...wealth. At this point Mr. Lippmann does not seem to believe in either the redistribution of the wealth or organization of workers. But 100 pages further on when he writes the agenda of a constructive liberalism, he finds that the liberal state "must by its own principles encourage and protect cooperative organization of producers, such as farmers and working men, who must sell at once and at any price offered, and in ignorance of the true supply and demand, if they bargain individually...