Word: safe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Clarkson was the only man on the nine who played a careful, snappy game. He struck out twelve men, and led the team at the bat, making three hits. None of the runs made by the Groton nine were earned, and several of their hits would not have been safe had the Freshmen made even a pretence of fielding sharply. The team is poor at batting, fielding, and especially at base-running, so that great improvement will have to be made before Saturday to avoid defeat at the hands of the Yale Freshmen. Innings...
Generally, in order to attract capital from men of wealth, who want sure, safe, investments, a new concern issues preferred stock. The condition attached to this stock is that a certain fixed dividend be paid on the preferred stock before the holders of common stock receive any advantage from the profit. Although the common stock is speculative in character it is frequently more remunerative than preferred stock as is seen at present in the case of the American Sugar Refining Company. The proportion of capital of the large combinations, which goes toward the cost of their promotion is an immense...
...work of both squads has been increased slightly during the last few days, and practice in sliding bases is now a regular part of the afternoon's work. Sliding--gloves are used in order to make the practice perfectly safe. The work is done under the coaching of Captain Reid and Hamilton of the Boston league team. The severity of the fielding practice has also increased, and the men have shown a marked improvement over their work of a week ago. Their handling of grounders is for the most part unusually clean considering the short time they have been...
...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the U. S. Division of Forestry will speak about "Forestry as as a Profession" in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum at 7.45 this evening. It is safe to say that few men in public life in this country today are doing more important work than Mr. Pinchot...