Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Remember, all this is very vague," warned Major Moore. "In all probability nothing will materialize from it. If, however, we found that we could put the canvas to a year-round use, we might consider it. It might be used in the spring to protect the baseball diamond from rain or possibly as a covering to the baseball grandstand. At present the whole project is nothing but guesswork...
...altogether satisfactory to the public, the employees or the companies. If a substantial agreement can be reached among the groups interested there should be no hesitation in enacting such agreement into law. If it is not reached, the Labor Board may very well be left for the present to protect the public welfare...
ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...
...novel impression to me. I have been engaged in legislation somewhat on the other side in Massachusetts, by attempting to protect women from possible impositions, as was suggested by one of the ladies, of prohibiting their employment in certain vocations that were supposed to be beyond their physical endurance, but if the womanhood of this nation wants that change and you demonstrate your ability, your capacity and your strength, even as you have before, to secure favorable action; if you want some change made now, I haven't the slightest doubt that Congress will respond favorably...
...brighter in Warsaw, the capital, Hugh Gibson, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland, preserved a dignified silence so far as the press was concerned. Whatever the situation was, is, or may become, Mr. Gibson's experience is such that he can be fully relied upon to protect U. S. interests in the land to which he is accredited...