Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pays the fines that accrue. What foolishness! Fines and charges are for the purpose of getting books back at the proper time, that they may be ready for others' use. Our few rules are designed to 'secure the rights of readers, or (what is finally the same thing) to protect the books for their...
...critical one for the Allies. The Germans were sinking 900,000 tons of shipping a month, and at that rate England would be starved into surrender within the next four or five months. Largely through the work of Admiral Sims, the convoy system, which had been used to protect battleships from the U-Boats, was applied successfully to merchant ships where up to this time it had been generally believed in naval circles that it would be a failure...
...sure of advantages enough in the technicalities of the law and in delays, negligences and mistakes. There is no danger that he will cease to have a full opportunity and all possible means of keeping out of jail. Give the community at least something like a fair chance. Protect the public safety a good deal more and its enemies a good deal less. --New York Times
...Olea!" But most remarkable of all is the platform he promised his constituents he would support if he sticks to it, Youngstown will do away with street cars altogether; its police will jail every citizen who does not pay his taxes immediately; and will permit, or, rather, "officially protect" the practice of "spooning" in the city parks...
...limitation of armaments is important, but it is not decisive as an agency of peace. National armament is the creature of national policy. If a nation cherishes policies which impair the freedom and prevent the development of other nations, it is bound to arm in self-protection against the resentment and the fear of other nations. It may agree temporarily to limit its armament, provided those who suffer from its aggression or are opposed to its pretensions agree to a similar limitation. But in that event disarmament is an advantage to the aggressor. It frees his hand. The helplessness...