Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administrators, Harvard has two frontiers to guard during the years of war. Above all stands the fulfillment of the pledge President Conant offered on December 8, that the University would put its strength and its soul into the effort of winning the war. Secondarily, but actively, Harvard seeks to protect and advance the borders of humanism and liberal education with whatever of its vast resources are not needed for the more immediate task. President Conant has flatly stated his faith that liberal arts will see a renaissance after the war is won. His requests for experiment...
...Attack! "Insects that attack stored grain and dried fruits were the object of effective blitz attacks by the entomologists, carried out in many cases by men who had to wear gas masks to protect themselves...
...under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south of Tripoli. They still had 350 miles to go before they could reach the battered but unshattered Afrika Korps...
...aircraft carrier is not in the fleet to protect surface ships but as the main offensive striking weapon...
Next morning the convoy reached the vicinity of Lae, where more Zeros undertook to protect it. Then George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...