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Word: protects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much as a new lock in Panama, and that the Panama Canal could carry twice as much traffic. A new canal, they added, would only make one more vulnerable spot to fortify and protect in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Canals | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...ceilinged office at the Japanese Foreign Ministry last week, seeking by every means to prevent a clash between Chinese and Japanese in China, and to persuade Great Britain and the U. S. not to follow up their shelling of Nanking (TIME, April 4), with still more vigorous measures to protect Occidental lives and property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Japan & France | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...woman, so long as they are honest and play the game, accumulate the wealth that seems to mean so much to them. But let them be held, through taxation, to contribute the modest share that will be needed for our plan of providing for the poorest classes, unable to protect themselves, the comfort and the health to which they are entitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trivia | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Purpose: to protect the copyright, since the book could have been pirated in the U. S. had it not been published and copyrighted here. It was not expected that, any of the 520,000 copies would be sold. Thus their contents would be kept privy to Colonel Lawrence's friends, although a copy had to be deposited in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., which anyone may read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Welsh Hero* | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Protect American lives and property." This slogan covers a multitude of sins. A few days ago at Nankin one American life was lost, two Americans were wounded, and in return Admiral Hough bombarded the city, killing scores, at least, possibly hundreds, of Chinese. It is a wonder that any Americans at all are left alive in the interior of China. And the ultimate decision as to our policy in China seems to be with this same Admiral Hough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST IS WEST | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

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