Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, been faced by many difficulties. It would be impractical, he feels, to safeguard the University's many treasures by moving them underground. The books at Widener must be available for the use of students. Secondly, the University has so far been unwilling to spend large amounts of money for the training of personnel as wardens, police, or rescue workers. The training of faculty and employees is planned for the future...
...national policy," said Aly Maher, "is to achieve evacuation [of the British] and unity of the Nile Valley [meaning Sudan] under the crown of Farouk . . . to maintain peace and security, and safeguard the rights of both natives and foreigners, in order to prove the government's ability ... to give the country a peaceful life...
...this argument the lawyer-moralist has a stern retort. First of all, punishment is an administrative necessity-an indispensable safeguard of civilized society. More important, "to condemn and punish offenders, to insist on their responsibility ... is a phase of ... bracing strictness which has an irreplaceable educational value . . . With any individual, simply to accept his temperament and character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part...
...live up to the best traditions of the theater and to avoid any of that political thing in casting. But when you get somebody who may cause a lot of bad publicity for your program, you have to be a little careful-it's an ordinary business safeguard...
...experiment was referred to by Ibsen as "a chance to acquire a safeguard to your health while assisting in a test valuable to your country...