Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Distemper Council started an elaborate experimental farm (TIME, Sept 24, 1923). Last week Dr. J. W. Patton, in the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital, Manhattan, let it be known that he is using ultra-violet-ray treatment. He installed a quartz lamp and put blue goggles on the dogs to protect their eyes from the strong light. But he does not believe he has found a cure...
...provide the necessary protection, the new trunks are heavily padded and special leg and knee pads protect the legs from injury. This new equipment, according to Wendell, will enable a player to shift quickly from a crouching position to a standing or running position, and in wet weather it will naturally reduce the weight of equipment and enable faster running and quicker dodging...
Britons breathed more easily last week when it was announced that the "O. M. S." would protect them in case of serious strikes or labor unrest...
...Maintenance of Supplies"; and several peers, among them Admiral Lord Jellicoe, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Viscount Falkland, Major General Lord Scarbrough, Lord. Ranfurly, Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, stood sponsor for what would seem to be a most ambitious attempt at organizing the country to protect and feed itself, in case of a national emergency...
...proposed to create a mobile body of citizens who could, if necessary, assume the following functions: 1) Act as special constables to protect the public services; 2) operate the railroads and channels of food supply; 3) drive vans and lorries; 4) act as messengers, in the event that the post, telegraph or telephone service is stopped...