Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably more than the traffic would bear. Even more discouraging was form 11-C. Names and addresses on it would be open to local police, who are supposed to enforce antigambling laws in 47 states (gambling is legal in Nevada). Even a bribed policeman would find it hard to protect a gambler whose name and address appeared on a federal list...
...important factors in his study. Although he is an English subject, Stagg was born in South America and spent his boyhood on his family's Ecuadoran cocoa plantation, second largest in the world. His grandfather had come to South America as a British naval officer who was ordered to protect his expire's interest there after the defeat of Napoleon...
...editorial, The Dartmouth criticized the administration's feeling an "inescapable responsibility" to protect student morals and not allow the student some responsibility for his own conduct. "The only inescapable responsibility of any college administration," the editorial said, "is to see that its students grow in responsibility themselves...
...election threatened soon, Clement Attlee would be badly needed to head his party's' candidates. If, on the other hand, the new government held on, he would be just as badly needed to protect the party from Rebel Aneurin Bevan...
Presidents Conant, Griswold, and Dodds have agreed on an athletic admissions policy for their respective institutions. They will not bury players, nor will they admit men who do not meet normal academic standards. This is a policy designed to protect athlete and college alike, for it denies exploitation of students at the same time that it denies subsidies...