Word: safeguarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a war, Japan, and not Russia, will start it, because the Russians realize that it would play havoc with their economic plans to get embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult, because the population of this state would be almost entirely Russian...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
...Layden at last week's convention of the American Football Coaches' Association in Chicago. Gripping hands heartily they wished each other luck. Hunk Anderson had just signed a three-year contract to coach at North Carolina State. Then they listened to a discussion of how coaches can safeguard their jobs...
...early days of the College, the authorities took it upon themselves to safeguard the morals of the rising generations. An example of this is included in the account of "the progress of learning in the College of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay" which contained an article to the effect that "none shall, under any pretence whatsoever, frequent the company and society of such men as lead an unfit and dissolute life...
...that these letters bear a common date, that they name an identical price . . . and that this price is the odd figure of $37.75) point unmistakably to the con clusion that these letters were the result of consultation and collusion. ... It seems clear that these are noncompetitive prices lacking the safeguard to the consumer which competition provides. Manifestly . . . the [steel] code was not intended to eliminate competition. On the contrary, it is by its own terms a 'Code of Fair Competition...