Word: protection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the stands of uniform height, 21 rows, the seating capacity will be increased from 5,400 to 7,000. The wire netting will be enlarged in order to protect these connecting sections...
...answer of the militarist doubtless is that he is quite ready to give up armaments as soon as the other nations do, but till then let us protect ourselves. And it is just there that the pacifist of today, and especially of the United States, has an opportunity unequalled in all history to serve the cause of civilization. When the present war is over the belligerents will be in a state of exhaustion from which they cannot recover in less than a generation at least. Men and women throughout the entire civilized world will have endured and seen suffering such...
...order, which are to no small degree lacking in the citizens of this country. Harvard has been accused by outsiders of thinking in the past and heeding little the affairs of the present. Let us show the country that we recognize the present need of a reserve force to protect our, rights and dispel from all minds that hackneyed term "Harvard indifference." MILITARIST...
...Seniors claimed that capital punishment is better fitted for protecting society from the criminal than life imprisonment because of the fact that a man's life is his dearest possession, and that he would consider well before jeopardizing it. The Sophomores based their argument on the statement that capital punishment does not protect society, for a jury naturally hesitates to condemn a man to death, so that a very small percentage of those actually guilty of murder ever receive the death sentence...
Apart from a few owners of Mexican property, no one in this country favors an aggressive foreign policy, but we are bound to protect our own rights and the rights of others whose interests we are pledged to safeguard. The events of the last few months have shown that no rights, moral or loyal, are safe unless backed by force. So long as international highwaymen exist and there is no international police to cope with them, peaceful nations must arm in their own defence. The present conflict will probably dispose of a few of the more notorious highwaymen, but there...