Word: protections
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...cannot meet our obligations to Porto Rico in any other way. We must enact duties which shall secure prosperity to the islanders. Our own customs laws will not accomplish this. They were devised to protect a manufacturing country that presents an almost complete contrast to Porto Rico, a purely agricultural island. In the parts of our country where the economic conditions approach those of Porto Rico, in the southern plantation states, the opposition to our tariff has been increasing for seventy-five years...
...first game on Soldiers Field, the diamond will be laid out near the Cage, in order to protect the turf on the University diamond from being trampled before the grass has had a chance to grow...
...connected with graduate work. The conference has been prompted, in the words of the invitation, "by a desire to secure in foreign universities, where it is not already given, such credit as is legitimately due to the advanced work done in our own universities of high standing, and to protect the dignity of our Doctor's degrees. . . . There is reason to believe that, among other things, the deliberations of such a conference as has been proposed will result, first in a greater uniformity of the conditions under which students may become candidates for higher degrees in different American universities, thereby...