Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important railroad decisions last week the Supreme Court in effect laid down a basic principle: It is more important for bankrupt roads to drastically revise their capital structures and get in tiptop working condition than it is to protect their junior bondholders and stockholders...
Newspapers vigilantly protect their cherished Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. Occasionally some abuse that freedom. Such an abuse occurred in California last week as the incidental result of a minor auto accident...
...saying that Mankiewicz "stumbled and nearly fell. His gait was staggering, his speech slurred and he was quite talkative. His eyes and pupils were dilated. He admitted having been drinking." Both papers clamored for justice; Beverly Hills' Police Chief C. H. Anderson was quoted: "We are determined to protect the streets of this community against intoxicated and reckless drivers. The Mankiewicz case seems like a flagrant one, and we are determined that it shall be justly handled...
...Freshman aspirant wears white ducks, white sneakers and a white sweat shirt, with his name stenciled on the back, a la West Point. By the time he is a Sophomore, our little friend is still white-ducked and white sneakered, but he has a black sweater to protect him from the often icy blasts of Soldiers Field. Since people generally know you when you're a Sophomore manager, the name tape is unnecessary. In fact, "hey, you!" is a term applied far more often to what were once known as Yardlings, stencil or no stencil, than it is to anonymous...
Unfortunately, the penchant to give parties for eligible young officers is not confined to schools, which have an abundant supply of equally eligible young ladies. Mrs. Giard has had to protect "her boys" from the wiles of fond mothers who wished to paim off their less popular daughters on the unsuspecting...