Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made 3-D shocker. The picture, a short containing horror sequences, the board ruled, would cause "emotional and nervous shock to young people, and thereby constitutionally endanger their health." M-G-M will take the case to the Austrian constitutional court, argue that the censors' job is to protect youth against immorality, not to protect their nerves...
...then felt obliged to defend his Faculty's action. "Mr. Tandy," he said, "has raised the issue of academic freedom. The faculty and students of this college have been and will be free to learn . . . however, if they engage in political action, the institution will not and cannot protect them from the social consequences of their activity . . . it has long accepted in the teacher's code of ethics that any teacher who wishes to enter the political arena would sever his connection with his institution either by resignation or by leave of absence...
...accompanying statement of the committee said Columbia sought to protect the freedom of the student "to select friends and associates according to personal interests and tastes "against" interference by persons or groups outside the university...
...again. Fruitlessly, Joe took her to witches in Tucson, in Nogales, in Pitiquito, in Sonora and Cavorca, Mexico. Finally Joe went humbly to Maria herself; in her flyblown parlor, with its green altar and its saints' pictures (some laid face down with coins placed against their lips to protect Maria's clients from gossip), Joe begged for a cure...
...order to protect the Cambridge area from rain on a given day, Howell estimated that under normal wind conditions 25 crystal generators would need to be set up on an are from Worcester to Plymouth. These would start to generate when rain-laden clouds, headed toward Cambridge, drifted overhead...