Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal mining is " one of the safest occupations in the United States," according to statistics filed by operators with the United States Coal Commission. State insurance figures show that 100 regular occupations are more dangerous. Window cleaning, operating farm machinery and carpentry are listed as exposing workmen to greater danger of injury and death than work in the mines...
...judgment. Henry Ford is not so widely admired as he once was. Grant that a man is sincere in trying to do what he is not fitted to do, that will not prevent men mingling pity with their admiration. And pity, when too frequently aroused, is in danger of turning into a mild contempt...
...which even Senators might envy. They stand among the few men of public influence in America whose influence does not depend upon how they stand. They have nothing to fear and nothing to seek for themselves. And they are saved by years of exacerbating contact with youth from the danger of ever becoming old. They are the elder guardians of Plato's Republic deprived of nothing but the authority which they deserve. They are the rarest phenomena of our age?men who have taken time to be wise...
Another run in the second and two in the third, however, put the Freshmen out of danger...
...third the Tigers ran wild on the bases, scoring five runs before they were retired. The Green made their only threat in the fourth, scoring two runs, but the Tigers came back with three more in the last of the same inning and Princeton was never in danger thereafter. Caldwell, the Orange and Black twirler, allowed his opponents only six hits, and helped win his own game with two triples and a single...