Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover hands his hat to his official Hat-Holder. Lifting his right hand, he repeats after Chief Justice Taft the affirmation to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Now President, he reads his inaugural address...
Sponges. Increase from 15% to 45% asked on four varieties to protect Florida sponge fishers...
...point on the Shantung peninsula which is fenced off from the rest of China by an expeditionary force of Japanese marines. These tough sliteyes have been where they are a long time, and, as in Nicaragua, "the purpose of the Marines is to protect lives and property," according to the Imperial Government at Tokyo. During the week only one small body of 7,000 Nationalist troops were able to maneuver around the Japanese within striking distance of Chang & mercenaries...
...myth. He had proved himself safe. He suffered himself to be photographed pitching hay for the 1924 campaign and on March 4, 1925, the people let him put his hand on the Bible from which he had learned to read at the age of four, and swear to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...cries of outrage on the part of undergraduates in the ears of Mr. Roberts not attempts to out-Herod Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such names as "Shock-Haired...