Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited at the start, but who can say how far it would spread or how much destruction it would do or how many may be called to beat it out? . . . There are interests and duties affecting us, our people and the people of the Empire to protect and discharge which we would fight...
...commanded the President, then turned to the bewildered peons, "The arms I have ordered for you are to make sure that your homes will not be burned again. But you have the responsibility to keep the peace in this neighborhood not only for yourselves but for all. You must protect everyone, including the owner of the plantation here. And I urge you not to permit the establishment of drinking places. If you do not stay sober you will not keep the peace...
...Commissioner Mahaffie to dissent again, ask for a more thorough revamping. Said he: "The majority approve a plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that in the past would . . . have been adequately covered. But the plan now approved is for the future. ... A new structure should protect creditor claims to earnings as far as is practicable. ... It should be calculated also to prevent the necessity of future reorganization...
...Deputies met to receive the first Soviet budget drawn up since the Commissariat of Finance was "purged"' last March. New Finance Commissar Arsenii Grigorevich Zverev made a budget speech declaring that it is the Soviet Union's "duty to protect . . . the interests and culture of the working masses everywhere." For this big job, he announced, Russia has adequate funds. The Deputies cheered for many minutes after Commissar Zverev climaxed: "We stand for Peace, but we are ready to give blow for blow! If need be, the whole people stands behind the army and the Communist Party...
...picnickers plagued by mosquitoes, the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week offered the following advice: 1) Spray oil of lavender on the hair and clothes. 2) Since mosquitoes have a preference for ankles, wear two pairs of socks or stockings. 3) To protect the face, use a 50% alcoholic solution of thymol, or oil of cloves in lanolin. 4) If bitten, apply immediately a weak solution of ammonia, washing soda, or soap and vinegar. A cut onion will also relieve the sting. 5) If the bite is painful, swab it with iodine in glycerin...