Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazard. In Richmond, the Virginia State Industrial Commission allowed a claim of $176 for medical expenses to Actor Mell Turner, who said that during a love scene he misjudged the distance, broke his nose on the leading lady's forehead...
...quantities of radioactivity are minute, it is true. But we know that the activity is being circulated about the lagoon and is being retained and concentrated in the tissues of fish, animals and plants. We also know that these concentrations can produce radiation of sufficient intensity to form a hazard to health and life...
...Harvard Law was the last major law school that taught only men," said Margaret Fecheimer, Radcliffe '52 and Mary Jean Hazard '50. "We would have liked to seen some school left where there are no women. This way it's like...
...time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard, the great money-raiser, who surveyed her campus from a surrey with a fringe...
...trouble comes from an old, old statute on the Cambridge books which forbids parking after 2 a.m. in the morning. The Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department, claiming that the firemen need plenty of room to maneuver their big equipment. But the fire department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs. The only possible justification for the ordinance is thus an imaginary one, yet the law stands...