Word: safe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Kendals opened their long engagement in Boston last night with "The Squire." Mr. and Mrs. Kendal are so well known here that no criticism of their work is necessary. They played before a large and enthusiastic house, and it is safe to say that no one was disappointed in their acting. They remain for four weeks...
...their effect would be null in the society, which even now includes in its graduate body more than one man, chosen under more liberal rules than those in vogue last year, who has failed to set the world on fire. Would it not therefore have been almost as safe and much wiser to adhere to the regulation of rank...
...frame building, the existence of an almost invaluable library of scientific records, is difficult to find, when at slight expense, though possibly with some trouble, the collection could be temporarily shifted to some fire-proof structure where, even though inconvenient for reference, it would at least be safe. The need of the observatory of funds to erect suitable buildings is urgent, but the probability of obtaining such bequests would not be lessened, while the probability of having something to put in the prospective structures would be greatly increased, by the precaution which we propose...
These experts inspected the seats in my presence and pronounced them to be perfectly safe and the best temporary seats they had ever seen. They thought them capable of supporting safely twice the number of people which was expected to occupy them the following...
...responsibility, if the seats had been insecure, would have rested with the inspectors and not with the management; and remarks upon criminal carelessness should be addressed to those who, having authority, pronounced the seats safe and not to the management of the game which took every precaution and went to great expense to have the seats built as strongly as was possible with temporary seats...