Word: protective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleeing Senators, to protect themselves in Rutland, had on hand six members of the Massachusetts State Patrol as well as plain-clothes men from both States. For fear of kidnapping, no one of them is allowed to leave the hotel at night without a guard...
What he had said, modestly, was that ihe had been successful in "an attempt to protect nurslings from the infection of tuberculosis...
Immigration. The new immigration law is designed to protect American citizens and resident aliens from the competition of unrestricted immigration. Its administrative features aid in eliminating hardships to immigrants...
...Thus the salvation of Negroes is logically and largely the work of Baptists." He declared that the presence of the Negro in the North as elsewhere created "a real or an imaginary problem which is the severest test of the worth and practicability of Christianity." He added that "to protect a credulous, inexperienced voter from the avarice and selfishness of 'designing men, is the golden opportunity and imperative duty of humanity-loving, God-fearing...
...ponds and marshes. One difficulty consists in the great number of natural enemies the muskrat has; chief among these are the fox, mink, the larger hawks and owls and even the pickerel. The little animals breed rapidly enough, however, to recompense in the long run for their inability to protect themselves...