Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...
Great Britain and France, it is alleged, are compelled by the sentiment of their Mohammedan colonies to protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...
...when it may lead to a mischievous act. That is the only restriction we would place on free speech. Our country is in a peculiar condition on account of its heterogeneous population. Foreigners, illiterates, and negroes form a large percentage of our population and it is our duty to protect these classes against the radical agitator preaching force and violence. More than that, we must protoect the American people against this vicious propaganda which will cause them to commit acts of violence, which the agitator is too cowardly to commit. This danger to the American people must be eliminated
...chief of the Defense Section of its Research Division he directed the development of chemical absorbents to be used in gas masks, a task of immense importance and difficulty. Under his immediate direction were also developed a salve to be used on the body as a protection against mustard gas, and a gas mask which could be used in submarines to protect men against carbon monoxide gas. Since last June he has been in charge of the research work of the nitrates division of the Ordnance Department, and in this position has been studying the task of putting the large...
...popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him in the classroom and outside. It is all very well to protect the preparatory school youth from pernicious doctrines, but if the college student is to be guarded from the danger of standing on his own feet, it is hard to see how he is ever to learn to think for himself...