Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they might: 1) provide funds to oust the tick from Texas steers; 2) provide funds to oust the hoof and mouth disease from the same; 3) "amend the highway laws of this State to such an extent as will, in the judgment of the Legislature, sufficiently protect the interests of the people and promote the establishment of an efficient system of public highways...
...added to the horrors of war on the surface and in the air. Although recent evidence apparently shows that the submarine can do little in direct combat with enemy battle units, it is well suited to destroying enemy commerce and striking fear into noncombatants. Even though abolishing submarines might protect these noncombatants, it is scarcely worth wasting breath on such a project at the present time. In the event of any great war in the future, the noncombatant population will be in far greater danger from aerial and chemical threats, if one is to believe the prophecies of scientists...
...proprieties of all competitions between all contestants, deciding each case purely upon the basis of sport for sport's sake, there would be no need either of amateur rules or even of amateurism, but for the same reason that laws and a police force will always be necessary to protect the social and civic rights of men, so civic rules and administrative bodies be necessary to safeguard the ideals of amateurism and to protect the participants thereunder
General Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander, was reported to have got through to Beirut on his way to Paris, whither he has been summoned to justify his ruthless methods against the Syrians. And the U. S. destroyers Coblan and Lamson arrived at Beirut to protect American interests. Several thousand refugees from Damascus, also at Beirut, were reported to be greatly alarmed lest famine should beset the relatives whom they had left behind...
...Commandant of the Coast Guard made it particularly clear to the reporter that the enforcement of the prohibition was only a small part of the work done by his men. "The Coast Guard was started," said Rear Admiral Billard, in 1790. Its purpose is to protect the customs laws of the United States. In these days, around the end of the eighteenth century, smugglers were very active in running contraband into secluded bays and inlets along the Atlantic seaboard. The original Coast Guard cutters had to combat this activity, which they succeeded in stamping out, and smuggling of that character...