Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leet says flatly that earthquakes cannot be predicted. But he thinks there is a definite possibility that, sometime in the next half century, a really lethal quake may hit Portland, Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, Bridgeport, Providence or New York. To minimize the hazard, he advised those cities to start earthquake protection for buildings and utilities...
...category come such things as fear, anger, worry, inattention, all those things which tend to distract a person from the task in hand. With these two as a basis, there is a third factor, which we call the mechanical factor. By this is meant some mechanical obstruction, some physical hazard, or some unsafe condition. As an illustration, we might imagine a man driving on the wrong side of the road. Now, this he might do for an hour or so without having an accident if there were no other traffic on the road; it is only when he encounters some...
Production troubles have plagued director Ted Squiers '43 and his associates, for one of the leading players went on pro and had to be replaced by the assistant director. S. Leonard Kent '43. The Cambridge Fire Department labeled the cyclorama a fire hazard, and the Club was obliged to have it fire-proofed...
Professor Paul Hazard, of the Academic Francaise, will lecture in French on "1840; on France il y a Cent Ans," in Emerson Hall at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
...varsity basketball team opens its season tonight against M.I.T. at the Tech Rangar, and no one seems to be willing to hazard a guess as to how it will come out. The game will go on as soon as the Vardling quintet has finished its curtain vaiser, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock...