Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lately, there has been a degree of politeness in the elevators here in the TIME & LIFE Building that would be considered extraordinary anywhere. Practically everyone has had a sore arm or a sore leg-the result of vaccination for smallpox-and an understandable desire to protect them from sudden onslaught...
Worn out, he went to bed early (but not before shaving, which he does at night so that a thin stubble will protect his face when the sun is bright). Next day, he rose at 5:45 a.m. as usual, took one look at the soaked fields. If the weather didn't dry up soon, the corn would be late going in, and it might be soft, come harvest time. Soft corn made poor feed...
...increased production cannot be absorbed if wages do not keep step with prices. This gap between the two will be widened if labor's power is destroyed, for who is going to protect the worker's wage when his union is made powerless? This union-killing policy will lead us only to another depression. After World War 1 the unions were weakened; prices and profits seared, but wages lagged. Buying fell off, men lost their jobs and we faced the great depression...
Soft to Touch. Chinchillas are squirrel-sized rodents with wrinkly noses and turned-up tails. They are native to the high, dry, hot & cold Andes. To protect themselves from the fierce changes in temperature, chinchillas developed a remarkable platinum-grey coat with as many as 80 marvelously fine hairs springing from every follicle. So soft is chinchilla fur that a blindfolded person sometimes cannot tell when his hand is brushing it. The close-set hairs foil fleas, which cannot maneuver through them to blood-bearing strata below...
...Hunt. Against smallpox, one of the most contagious of all diseases, there is only one effective protection-vaccination. New York Health Commissioner Israel Weinstein promptly warned New Yorkers who had not been vaccinated within five years to get vaccinated. He also set to work to protect all the city's employees, rounded up for vaccination firemen, subway workers, social workers, policemen, hospital staff members, 1,000 guests in the city's flophouse. Some 2,500 patients who had been discharged from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands...