Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smog produced by Congress' attempt to protect G.I.s from political propaganda (TIME, July 24 et ante) last week began to clear a little...
Congress' effort to protect the G.I. mind from political propaganda (TIME, July 10) by last week had the press, the public and the Army itself thoroughly befuddled. Some of the results...
...column he kidded himself, dramatizing every little frailty, foible and misadventure. Gradually he created a sort of prose Charlie Chaplin, a bewildered little man whose best intentions almost always led to pratfalls. His readers loved it. People who recognized a fellow spirit, people who wanted to mother and protect him, wrote to him by the hundred. By 1940 he probably knew more people at firsthand or by mail than any man, with the possible exception of Jim Farley, in the U.S. And he had become a master of the art of putting people at their ease and drawing them...
...twelfth century, when the reputation of Abelard was drawing thousands of students to Paris, the masters or teachers of the Liberal Arts there formed a gild or corporation in order to keep up standards and protect their interest. After the candidate had resided a certain number of years, attended the prescribed lectures, and read the required books, he took two read the required books, he took two oral examinations, paid numerous fees, treated the bedels or university officials to drinks, figs, and gloves, and engaged in Latin disputation on the evening before Commencement, which came in early July...
Ubico claims to protect the humble, peaceful Indians who form the bulk of the Guatemalan population (total: 3,284,269). Actually, he grants these subjects no rights at all, controls them by arbitrary vagrancy laws, makes them work three weeks a year for the State for nothing. Hundreds of these forced Indian laborers have died on a road which Ubico is pushing through the pestilential jungles of Peten...