Word: guardian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From her pinprick on the world's charts of New York Harbor, off which she has lain to warn the ships of the world of a guardian shoal, the Ambrose steamed southeastward?for 1? mile. Then down went her bebarnacled anchor-&-chain once more...
Before a railroad may build a new line, it must make application to its stern guardian, the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission may or may not look favorably on the petition of its ward. Last week for the first time the I.C.C., without waiting to be asked by a railroad, commanded the Union Pacific to build 185 miles of new line. This assumption that the Commission has positive as well as negative, executive as well as judicial power over the railroads of the land will probably be bitterly contested by the railroads...
...called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare, a strong and jealous guardian of the foreign rights and fiscal integrity of France. When he had done, M. Tardieu received an ovation no less general than M. Briand's. Dopesters conceded him a majority of perhaps...
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...learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor...