Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west, north, and east borders of British Burma and claimed the country where the Chins, Shans, Kachins, Nagas, Was, and some Karens lived. Most of these non-Burman tribesmen had been loyal to the British (as most Burmans were not) during the war, and Britain had promised to protect them. But when the Burmans, like the furniture owners, pointed out that the tribal areas were part of prewar Burma, the British gave in and agreed eventually to incorporate the tribes in the new country...
...could spare the time, the brothers waded out at low tide to dig in the gluey brown mud. In 1937, they found three planks which looked old enough for any antiquarian. Between the ebb & flood, the toilers of the Humber dug like inspired muskrats, building a mud wall to protect their find from being washed away by the currents. More planks appeared. Maybe it was a boat? By Jove, it was a boat...
...influenza, the medical authorities at Yale recently vaccinated, free of charge, every student in the university. Harvard has not followed suit for a number of reasons. The only vaccines which have been developed so far are not effective against the dangerous pandemic form. Vaccinations for virus "A" do not protect against virus "B", and "B" vaccine is ineffective against a wave of "A" cases. For all types, the duration of the immunity is indeterminate, with the only sure fact being that the guarantee against contraction of the disease becomes less certain as time passes...
...proposed bill would make any school or college enrolling more than 35 percent of the student body from outside the state no longer eligible for tax exemption. Representative Peter J. Jordan of Revere, co-sponsor of the bill, said that this was "purely a temporary measure, designed to protect our own boys during the post-war crisis. There have been so many complaints from families of boys and girls unable to obtain a higher education in their own state that we felt legislation was justified...
...listed specific progress in setting up the rules of law: these, he said, "must carry clear and adequate safeguards to protect complying states from the hazards of violations and evasions. ... If a nation by solemn treaty agrees to a plan for the control of atomic weapons, and agrees that a violation of that treaty shall be punished, it is difficult for me to understand why that nation cannot agree to waive the right to exercise the veto power should it be charged with