Word: protection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last the rules of the game are adequate. The rights of the player are now protected as well as defined, and the matches can be decided always on the merits of the game, and the result put beyond dispute. The umpire scheme has proved a wonderful success. The new official has been able to protect the game against foul plays through his power to enforce the penalties the rules prescribe. All the displays of temper in this year's three great matches are to be counted on the thumbs, and were summary punished and atoned...
DEBATE OF DECEMBER 14, 1887.Question: "Should the U. S. Government interfere to protect the rights of colored voters in the South...
...Previous amicable arrangements broken off by the U. S. from selfish motives; (b) Canada justified in asserting her legal rights, both to protect her fishermen and to show the value of the privileges sought by Americans.- Lorne in Fortnightly Review, xlvii...
...spirit. The communication today complains of a nuisance which is quite common. It results form carelessness, we suppose, but it is none the less an evil. There are surely certain rules of self-restraint which the in mates of the dormitories should observe in order that they may protect themselves from lawlessness...
...learned there was going to be a "disturbance." Why, bless your "faithful" heart, "James," the Committee would have been deaf, dumb and blind, if the "wars and rumors of wars" all day prevalent had not reached them. Would any other society, similarly threatened, have failed to take measures to protect itself...