Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week all illusions were shattered when President Coolidge informed the press that wooden bridges had covers merely to protect the lower timbers from the elements which would rot them. Such bridges will frequently outlast a succession of iron bridges. The President told of a wooden covered span near Springfield, Mass., which has been standing more than a century...
...friend Mrs. William Butler of the local W. C. T. U., was Mrs. Henry Ford. To Mayor Smith's dismay, Mrs. Butler arose, denounced his administration roundly and stalked from the room. Nor did Mrs. Ford come forward to be Mayor John Smith's Pocahontas, to protect his political life. Mrs. Ford marched after Mrs. Butler...
...dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted in the rear cockpit of his plane, at the flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus around it to protect it from the 80°-below zero weather of 35,000 feet aloft. Then he will ascend, take panoramic views showing 318 miles of earth at once, with little blotches for great cities, tiny veins for huge rivers...
...Caillaux (his second wife) shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro. It was established that she acted to protect herself and her husband from the publication by Le Figaro of documents tending to demonstrate their mutual moral turpitude at an earlier period and his current civil dishonesty. Though infuriated mobs attempted to lynch them both in the streets, Mme. Caillaux escaped conviction. So abysmal was their disgrace that his few remaining influential friends rushed him out of France on a flimsily concocted "mission" to South America...
...first venture of the kind but she admitted to no qualms at the thought of traveling 10,000 mi., of entering jungles never visited by white men. Seeing her off at the dock, her husband also denied uneasiness: "She is a splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there was Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of Naturalist Seton, who exhibited a rifle "that already...