Word: safeguarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than levity. Harvard Hall stands as a constant menace--a fire-trap endangering daily the lives of scores of men. The proper University authorities can respond to the idea of Fire Prevention Week in no better way than by facing the situation frankly and taking the necessary measures to safeguard the lives of those who are constantly using the building...
...reason for these loans is that France has particular interests to safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...
...room in which the demonstration took place is 100 feet square by 60 feet high, walled with brick and lined with steel to safeguard the exterior world. Although assured that there was no danger, the handful of invited newspapermen signed liability releases before entering and stood trembling on a high steel platform while the gigantic bolts flashed under their noses. Three huge transforming towers 30 feet high wound with 100 miles of wire and grounded in tanks containing 40,000 gallons of oil, the whole inside a protecting cage of steel wire, were used to " step up " a current...
...Military victory must be allowed to rest for the moment with those who have destroyed the republic. Other means must be sought to safeguard the nation's right...
...freedom of cuts. The ultimate purpose of greater freedom would be to increase each student's personal responsibility and so to increase his interest in study. But it is hard to judge whether the increased interest would follow the freedom, or whether the interest is necessary firs, as a safeguard. No plan which makes a sudden change would succeed: freedom and interest must develop side, and for that reason the cautious steps of the authorities are justified. Such mild measures as the extension of the Dean's List, and greater freedom for students in more advanced courses, are a slow...