Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These disheartening movements were widely explained as being caused, in part, by the tactics of British bankers, who threw their foreign currencies on the market to protect the pound from depreciation due to the British strike. In this they were successful, for the pound scarcely wavered...
...fondest hope that Heaven and its Holy Trinity will always protect their peaceful homes, their grazing flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, their joyful vineyards and fields of golden grain, which are now preparing for the merry harvest season. May the happy harvest songs of their busy busy boys and honey-hearted girls soon resound from one end of Jugoslavia to the other, praising the Lord for his abundant harvest blessings...
...trouble, coal mining. Premier Baldwin's conciliatory offer seems in a fair way to be accepted by the associated Trade Unions, if not by the more radical leaders among the miners. Certainly, the Premier's proposal, based on the Coal Commission's report represents a solution which will protect the public as well as the two rival factors of production. The subsidy, which drains the common treasury for the sake of a single class, will be continued only until the industry can be reorganized along efficient lines. Then the better paid miners will have to accept a cut in wages...
...they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public which will pay the price to be stung...
Said the princely Arabian donor, patting the horse's flank: "His name, Signor Premier, is 'Said,' which means 'Good Fortune.'" Pleased, the somewhat superstitious* Duce responded: "So! I will ride him every day. I will remember daily your loyalty. May the All Highest protect...