Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drake plans no permanent club to protect the owl; his Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Owl will last only until he obtains at least 100 names for his petition. The five-man society sent a letter of approval to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology, thanking him for his donial of the harm done by the owl. (Griscom previously had said the owl didn't touch Yard squirrels...
James Biggar, manager of real estate and care taking, said last night that no additional police officers would be stationed in the Observatory by the university. "It's completely up to the city to protect those streets," he said...
...United States State Department paid little attention to the case. Frederick Ayer, security officer of the U.S. Mission to Greece, was detailed to protect Polk's wife while she was being interrogated by the Greek police. He frequently was absent from the questioning sessions and made few other efforts to intervene in the case...
Colorado's sportsmen were appalled at the bloodletting. Many ranchers had armed themselves to protect their herds from two-legged raiders more dangerous than mountain lions. Said one rancher: "A house or a barn isn't protection enough any more; you've got to have a concrete pillbox...
Brooding over this bloody scene stood the unearthly stone faces. According to native legends, they were made by a tribe called "the Long-Ears," who were eventually massacred by "the Short-Ears." According to Dr. Wolff's psychological analysis, the statues were set up to protect the souls of the dead, or to protect the volcanoes (symbolizing rebirth) from the spirit of death. The statues were carved in the crater of a volcano. Several, as if just completed, lie there still. Others lie unfinished, as if their long-eared carvers had dropped their crude tools just before being killed...