Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble. To protect passersby, Academy President Alfred G. B. Steel last week had scaffolding put up around her and asked the advice of sculptors on ways of preserving her weathered marble...
...Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop Simeon of Shabatz lifted a heavy silver cross to protect himself and down came a rifle butt, smashing the cross against his head. Blood pouring from his face, he was carried off suffering a brain concussion. Sacred emblems were snatched from priests' hands, banners torn to shreds before the procession scattered...
...seen Or heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith's men joined the British regulars under Colonel Bouquet for a finish fight in the Ohio country. Three companies of regulars were left behind to protect frontier homes. When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves of unendangered Philadelphians. Among frontier settlers, confidence in British government reached...
Wisconsin's new law offers a sort of personal receivership to debtors earning less than $2,400 a year. By applying to the District Court the debtor may protect himself from garnishee actions for a period of two years during which a referee designated by the court supervises paying off his bills in installments, sees to it that he is allowed enough of his earnings to feed and care for his dependents...
...learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...