Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Japan continued to maintain several potent armed forces in China, to protect her nationals in the provinces of Shantung, and Manchuria and in Peking (Chihli Province) (TIME, April 30). Therefore, in all probability the men who knew most authoritatively last week, which way the tide of Chinese Civil War will turn were the officers comprising the Japanese Imperial General Staff...
This war to end flies will not be won without overcoming stubborn resistance Travellers in Italy this summer may expect to witness at any time battles between great swarms of embattled flies and heroic groups of warriors, protected by a barricade of fly-paper and yielding swatters with deadly effect. But the chief danger is to the Premier himself. So far he has managed to protect himself from would-be assassins, but no defense can save the man for whose blood a whole face of flying avengers will soon be thirsting...
...eliminate the last factor, the ten pig men cooperate. They agree on a pig-selling period. To protect themselves further from each other, they agree that, for each pig he sells, each pig man shall put a certain fee in a common fund. At the end of the pig-selling period, portions of this fund shall be advanced to any of the ten pig men who have had to sell their pigs, at home or in some other village, for less than what all agree upon that year's "fair price" for pigs. The pig men have thus equalized...
This done, the deputies returned and made report. Last week L. Osservatore Romano, official press spokesman for the Vatican, passed judgment on the fountain. In an editorial, it urged Prince Potenziani, Governor of Rome, to remove the "coarse exhibition," under the police regulations which permit him to protect the public against indecency. The official unveiling of the statue was postponed; crowds came hustling into the Square and stared at the fountain, from which no water rose...
...Anglo-Egyptian pact, which terminated the British protectorate undertaken in 1914. From that time until the present, Egypt has been working for absolute independence. A sovereign state, Egypt wished the British restrictions removed, but Britain firmly insisted on her right to guard her communications of Empire and to protect foreigners...