Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Progressing rapidly with their plans to protect the University community, Harvard Air Raid Precaution officials announced last night that there will be a practice evacuation of buildings some time early in the next term, and have posted directions concerning the location of shelters...
Hayes-Bickford is taking steps to protect its supply of the precious white grains from any more raids like the one made recently by a little woman with a brown bag who causally filled her bag with sugar and departed without even saying thank you. They now have posted a sign saying that the sugar is being apportioned at the counter because of the present "Public Hysteria...
...There are some interesting sidelights to this matter of earthquakes," Landsberg said. "With minor shocks coming so often, it must be difficult for the Japs to protect their harbors and naval bases. I don't know how much it takes to set off a sea mine, but I have a hunch that the little men are having trouble keeping their mines anchored to the ocean floor...
...conscience to pick up several more. They were a little French girl, an orphaned French boy, a derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately, a Nazi child. All of them he made it his increasingly dangerous business to protect, to convey to England, to reserve from war's destruction both in body and spirit. En route they endured every mechanism of debacle from delayed trains to a strafing, and old Mr. Howard managed his charges with exquisite kindness and tact...
Everybody knows about the fighting forces of the Dutch East Indies. Some people know about the Netherlands Brigade which--together with millions of Britons and thousands of Canadians, French, Poles, Czechs, Belgins and Norwegians--protect the shores of England against invasion. Only few people have heard about the thousands of Netherlanders who are doing gallantly their duty in the Battle of the Atlantic, side to side with the British and Norwegians. Those Dutchmen are carrying on--under particularly difficult circumstances...