Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artificial Islands. The company tried an experiment of setting guards to protect small peninsulas where a few birds alight occasionally. The guards shot predators such as foxes and condors, drove away egg-stealing humans. The birds responded at once by accepting the protected peninsulas as artificial islands. They came by thousands, then by millions, and settled down to fishing and producing guano...
...done with the slaughter of America's feeble-minded youth. I say: let us be done with this bloody destruction of brawny sheep who might be drafted into the armed services better to serve their ideals and their self-destructive tendencies, and as the same time to protect us who subject our minds to the long, endless study of life as it is lived by the truly brave and understanding...
...Specialist Paul Dudley White, is progressing satisfactorily. He looks and feels well; his temperature, pulse (low 70s) and blood pressure (132 over 80) are normal, and his circulation is excellent. His spirits and morale are good, his mind alert. In order to keep him "from bubbling over and to protect his heart from his overactive brain," he is given a small dose of sedatives when he awakens each morning. No complications have appeared, and they are now unlikely-but not impossible...
Today, however, U.S. industry is doing its best to make sure that history does not repeat itself. Apart from the basic good health of the entire economy, most modern stock-buying programs contain safeguards to protect employees. One device is for the company to help its employees buy stock, either through discounts or straight cash contributions. Thus, if the stock drops, the loss is spread between company and worker. A.T. & T., for example, sells its stock (currently $180) at a $20 discount. G.M. buys 50? worth of stock for a worker for each $1 he puts into savings (of which...
...secondhand Rolls Royce ("A Rolls gives a girl such confidence"). She also began showing a remarkable talent for grabbing publicity. When she was hauled into court for nonpayment of rent, the judge noted that she was a minor and ruled: "It is the duty of the court to protect infants." A big-circulation Sunday paper printed a huge picture of Diana in scanties, headlined: JUDGE SAYS THIS BABY NEEDS PROTECTION...