Word: guardedness
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Twelve gates admit respectable pedestrians to the cloistered precincts of the Yard, and day and night eleven of the twelve stand open, to all appearances guarded with no extraordinary rigor. Not so the twelfth. Religiously the watchdogs of the college swing shut at stroke of six the iron portals that...
The justification of this slipshod connection between error and its correction is an avowedly personal one. The secrecy is designed to protect instructors from unpopularity among students whom they report. On its face, this apprehensive anonymity is unscholarly and harmful. For, each upper classman, not a transfer student, has passed...
He went to Belfast in 1912 to make such a speech. Ulster Unionists got wind of it and almost overturned the motor in which he and his wife were riding. They made it necessary for him to speak to Ulster Nationalists in an open field, heavily guarded by police. They...
"The widespread desire for a deeper life of the spirit," "the instinct for interior discipline," the privileges of faith will be safe-guarded," "a spiritual inventory", such are the phrases which the Catholic Commonweal uses in praising the week-end retreat idea, in advocating its extension.
At Budapest occurred further scandalous developments in connection with the notorious "Thirty Billion Franc Forgery" (TIME, Feb. 1). Although some four to six policemen guarded every streetcorner, the Opposition Leader, Deputy Vasony, a former Minister of Justice, found himself looking up the muzzle of a revolver as he left the...