Word: guardians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving cars or operating machinery. Experience with these drugs is not yet long enough to know whether or not they are harmless when used over long periods of time. Furthermore, the amounts taken in persistent colds may be definitely beyond what has been established as safe." As a guardian of the public's welfare, the council promised to look further into the controversial matter...
...about this season. It is hard to understand, however, why he chose an open letter to four publications to castigate to coach who has done his best. It is hard to understand how Fish could have changed from the helping alumnus he seemed in 1948 to the jealous guardian of past Harvard glory that he now claims...
...Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping, or the church," mused Edgar Bergen, "but it has definitely revived vaudeville. I wish there would be a guardian over vaudeville this time to.prevent the same people from killing it who killed it before." He added darkly: "Several of them are back at the scene of the crime...
...same day Robert was "justified," he met himself in a wood. "What was my astonishment! ... I conceived that my guardian angel had appeared." For hours the two rowed their theological pea pods up & down the mainstream of early Calvinist theology-the predestinarian doctrine that man is saved or damned in the mind of God before he is born. Soon they were in a dangerous eddy: that it doesn't really matter what sins a man commits in this life, as long as he is one of God's elect...
That concept included murder "by the commission of heaven," said the "guardian angel," who reluctantly gave his name as Gil-Martin. He indicated a certain anti-predestinarian divine: "If the man Blanchard is worthy, he is only changing his situation for a better one; and, if unworthy, it is better that one fall than that a thousand souls perish." Robert agreed, and did the deed with a little golden pistol his guardian gave...