Word: safeguarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish carefully to safeguard these statements, however, by iteration and reiteration that it behooves all of us to avoid confusing the symbols and the facts of intellectuality and I should hope that under any circumstances we might avoid confusing mental gymnastics and facility in appropriating the ideas of others with genuine thinking. Unfortunately, intellectual hypocrisy and its complement, intellectual smugness, are not sufficiently infrequent even within college halls while at the same time I believe that on the whole they are as much to be avoided and that they are detrimental to the spirit of true scholarship as is ignorance...
...conclusion of the Disarmament Committee at Geneva, announced by Lord Robert Cecil, "that it was impossible to suppress--entirely the use of chemicals and scientific weapons" and that "the only safeguard was to make the peoples of the world understand the horrors that might be expected from such methods," notwithstanding the Root resolution at the Washington Conference forbidding the five powers the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or analogous liquids or materials or devices...
...course, in the Senate, the rectification of Treaties with any Foreign power; the Tariff, with its general intricacies and ramifications, much more complicated that it seemed even in college days when Professor Taussig tries to simplify it for our benefit. To many the Tariff is the one safeguard we have to balance the difference between the cost of production abroad and in this country, thus protecting our manufacturing industries and enabling the American workman to get better wages and live on a higher plane than his fellow workman in Europe. Today, the middle West is urging the imposition of Tariff...
...feel, can be done only. . . through joint action with our old friends and rivals, Yale and Harvard," while Professor Mendell echoes this idea with these words, "I hope that the day is not far distant when Harvard, Princeton and Yale can agree upon some such regulation as a safeguard for true sportsmanship...
...spread throughout the University like a forest fire. Fortunately, the cessation of classes offers a partial fire-break. But sore-throats and anesges are not to be tolerated; no man with even an incipient cold should shun the doctor's office. The service is free; the safeguard of an examination is not only an advantage to the man but a duty to his neighbors...