Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personnel of the House. In the cellar of Hicks House the Library has its massive vault for precious books, where carefully guarded from the vulgar eye lie such treasures as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer, and an early set of Beaumont and Fletcher. In addition, in order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library has placed Mother Goose Censored, the Limericks of Norman Douglas, and James Joyce's Ulysses down in the vault from which they may be withdrawn by special permission of the Librarian. In order to get a copy of Ballyhoo...
...Significance. Fundamental in the new measure was this clear statement of U. S. public policy on Labor: Whereas under prevailing economic conditions . . . the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment, wherefore it is necessary that he have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor . . . in concerted...
...youth and growth should not be checked by age and tradition. The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest. Old Pablo Montoya (J. Edward Bromberg) has resolved to resist the Gringo invasion to the last ditch, to protect his lands and the imperious institutions in which he believes. As a result of his convictions, he kills one son for treating with the enemy, almost kills another who is in love with the girl whom Pablo has decided to take for his third wife. He finally realizes his mistakes before...
...protect its famous photographic collection," he said, "the plates will be taken out of their wooden stacks in a crowded non-fireproof building and stored in vaults safe from fire and moisture. The total number of usable photographs in the Observatory is approximately 350,000. The collection is now growing at the rate of 5000 plates a year. The Harvard collection is five or ten times the size of the next largest; but size is not its only distinction. The maintenance since 1890 of a station in the southern hemisphere has made the Harvard collection unique in that it comprehensively...
...downstairs. For Guerchard, naturally, the location is ideal, as nothing gives him greater pleasure than opening the entrance door with his own key, sitting in a dark niche all night guarding the family treasures, or thumbs in waistcoat, announcing in the great hall with his deep voice. "I will protect you. I am the police. I am France...