Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastern protectorates and possessions. Last week General Maxime Weygand hurried to Vichy to see Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and discuss, among other things, Syria. Last week, coincident with the German move through Bulgaria, Russia sent troops into the Caucasus, from which point they could either help to protect Turkey or join in the Near Eastern scramble...
Measles is transmitted by a tiny virus which was made visible under the microscope in 1937 with a stain called nigrosin. Last year a successful vaccine was announced. It will be useful to protect boys going into the Army from remote rural districts, where they have never had measles or acquired natural immunity. Many such boys in World War I died of pneumonia, brought on by measles...
...hair, tickled his ears and seemed eager at just the right moments. Says he in the midst of her seductions: "It's funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges to visit his home as an English peeress (her resemblance to the girl on the boat becomes a comic asset rather than a plot difficulty). She gets him to marry her-then on the honeymoon...
American hopes of maintaining the status quo in the East naturally center around supporting Britain's position, and to do that Dr. Fairbanks believes that sending planes in accordance with our established policy of aid will protect United States interests from Japanese aggression...
...glad that Mrs. Richard Hooper Pough came home one day in 1939 with a new hat. The hat sported an eagle feather. Husband Pough was mightily vexed. A worker for the Audubon Society, he had hoped that hard-won U. S. laws of 1900, 1918, 1930 would protect eagles and other wild birds from milliners. He soon found that when Paris couturiers feathered ladies' hats, traffic in plumage flourished again as it had 30 or 40 years...