Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to emphasize the fact that in our building program, our plans are based on our own needs; we are rounding out the fleet to form a homogeneous unit to protect the country against our enemies," was the statement made by C. D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...brag on it, and openly violate the Constitution otherwise, it is time to lay aside courtesy, and instead of having troops in Nicaragua, where we have no business to defend money interests, we should bring them here and put them on the streets of the District of Columbia to protect the lives and the property and the virtue of the women of our country and the lives of our little boys and girls...
...Powers of its Constitution in which it claims the right "to prohibit any man who show an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition," is weak. To add "in order fully to protect the rights of the undergraduate body" fails to invalidate any of the objections offered by the CRIMSON on December 8. The matter is merely further befogged and the new words introduced are conciliatory, without being explanatory. As the clause now stands it is longer but no stronger than it was before...
...weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend the truly Christian spirit of Major Harvey who merely smiled at his assailant, and refused to protect himself or have the other arrested...
...Standard Oil Company of New York has the largest interests in China of any petroleum firm whatsoever. President Calvin Coolidge has despatched U. S. Marines "to protect U. S. interests in China" (TIME, March 7, 1927). The commander-in-chief of these Marines is Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, famed "fighting hell-devil Marine." Last week General Butler personally directed U. S. Marines who fought for more than 24 hours and finally extinguished a fire which threatened the $25,000,000 petroleum stores of the Standard Oil Company of New York, at Tientsin (near Peking...