Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statute giving federal authorities the power to "protect foreigners against mob violence, and making participation in such violence a federal crime...
...response to the challenge that "more and more people are seeking a university education" be it hereby resolved that there be established a Society for the Contraction and Preservation of Harvard College, the broad purpose of which will be to protect the vested interests of those presently enrolled and to proclaim the motto that stone walls do not a prison make, nor ivy walls an education...
...bulk of the SINS equipment is housed in a 67-ton, temperature-controlled navigational tower that looms just forward of the superstructure in the most rigid part of the ship. To protect the instruments from as much motion as possible, the Compass Island is equipped with wing-shaped gyrofins, which cut down roll from 7½° to a barely perceptible .4°. Among the ship's other refinements: a giant, airfoil-shaped sonar dome beneath the keel that will measure ship's speed (and which has already earned the nickname "droop snoot...
Towards Yesterday. Tragically, the Byrd program has hurt most what Harry Byrd is trying to protect: the education of Virginia's children. Construction of needed school facilities is lagging badly; school boards are hard put to find buyers willing to invest in Virginia's confusion...
...policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion of British and French troops from the U.N. Emergency Force, said with bitter sarcasm: "It won't be easy ... to establish an international force of two battalions to protect Hungary against the Soviet Union, will it? That is a 30-or 40-division job; so I hope you will acquit me of being pessimistic when I say that I don't believe Hungary is going to be protected ..." From Paris, former French Premier Georges Bidault, who helped write...