Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Possibly the University feels that Yard dwellers are too young to be put on their own in the great social game. The chaperon system may be just a fatherly device to protect inexperienced youths from the clutches of unscrupulous females. If that is the case, it seems strange indeed that House residents should be so completely cast adrift on the seas of passion, sustained only by sign-in registers and curfews...
...furnished by a group of Jainist monks who alighted from an airplane at New Delhi, their mouths and nostrils scrupulously masked. Fleeing for their own lives, they had not neglected a strange precaution of their sect. The Jains believe that the air is a living thing and that they protect the air from injury by filtering it through the masks as they breathe...
...squeezing past the guards and equally well-versed in the art of filling out bogus charge slips, make off with an average 500 books each year. A more efficient checking system at the exits and a program to distribute identification cards to men using the library could easily protect the entire student body from the greed of a light-fingered...
Describing the tangle of U.N. committees that the partition proposals had to penetrate, Gelber called the present situation intricate and serious. He proposed a combination of Haganah and major power forces to protect Palestine during the dangerous interim period...
Egypt's authorities know that neither quarantine nor immunization nor individual cures can fully protect her crowded population. So they are going after the flies, busy spreaders of cholera, which swarm over Egypt in uncountable billions, as they did in the time of Moses. U.S. Pilot Bob Holt, hired by the Egyptian Government for antimalaria spraying, covers Cario daily with a fog of DDT. The flies of Egypt are specially tough, but the DDT is getting them down...