Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latest fever in the New York schools' "reign one of day terror" came just one day after the (TIME, New Dec. 14) York City Teachers Guild (A. F. of L.) and other teacher groups openly asked police to protect them from violent students. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia replied that the terror was exaggerated, that the New York cop would remain the children's friend...
...Board statisticians figure that 16 large U.S. corporations had a record 1,611,200 shareholders last year, 64% more than in stock-crazy 1929. For the whole U.S. economy this is a good thing: big business thus has more policemen to keep it out of trouble, more guardians to protect it from needless persecution...
Beveridge submits that all social insurance be placed in the hands of a single Ministry, and that the program of benefits be extended beyond anything ever before accepted as practical politics. His scheme will protect those it covers from every economics stress from childbirth to burial insurance: maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, accident payments, allowances for educating children, and a dozen or so others. These boons are not just gravy to be sopped up frm the public platter. Every pension is contributory, to be paid for largely from payroll taxes borne by the workers themselves. Beveridge cannot be accused of purveying...
Surgeon, Old Style. From tail coats, surgeons progressed to shirt sleeves and rubber aprons, not to protect the patient but to protect the surgeon's clothes. One man wore longshoreman's boots, another "butcher's boots which he never cleaned." Only by gradual stages was the present top-to-toe sterile white achieved...
...Erdmann gives credit for the invention of rubber gloves to the late Dr. W. S. Halsted of Johns Hopkins, who thought them up to protect the hands of a pretty nurse he later married. The hand-washing then in vogue took the skin off doctors and nurses alike. Bichloride and carbonate of soda were used. "There was no question of the liberation of chlorine, nor was there any question of destruction of hands and laundry nor of the corrosion of plumbing." Surgeons worked in cotton gloves...