Word: safe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...come in from the farms, as buyers were afraid to buy from the farmers unless they could "hedge" by a "future" at Winnipeg. The prohibition had to be removed. (4) By collecting information of worldwide conditions of supply and demand, and expressing them in prices, the speculators make it safe for farmers, millers, and others to rely on the prices as guides for further production. This "directive function" of speculation is perhaps most important of all. A fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given it, is that speculators, by making an active market, make it safe...
...this sleepy forgetfulness must stop! If we are to enter the fight a nation united in one cause we must be conscious of the traditions of the flag, of the battles of the Revolution and the Civil War, which made the United States "safe" until today, "for democracy." We must look up to the flag once more as the standard of our forefathers, as the symbol of the ideals which we, as a democratic nation, stand ready to defend...
...vindication of the rights of the small nations of Europe, but Porto Rico is even more keenly interested in fighting for the liberties of the small countries of America than in fighting for the liberties of the small nations in Europe. The New World also must be made safe for democracy. MANUEL MATIENZO...
...place in centre field on account of the latter's absence; Bond returning to his old place in left field, and Zach starting the game behind the bat for the first time. Team B started the scoring in the first inning and obtained what proved to be a safe lead, tallying three runs. Wyche started off by drawing a base on balls; McLeod, being hit by Boyd, who was pitching for Team A, reached first, and both scored when Holly drove out a long double. Cummings, who was playing in right field for Team B for the first time, singled...
...forgetting for a moment the false rhetoric and almost inconceivable bad taste of the latter, which of the two displayed more activity, ardor and self-sacrifice and supported with greater ability the greater cause--the subject of the above account or the writer of the editorial? While the latter, safe at home, was mouthing rhetorical rubbish about "the one loyalty" and the "greater cause," the men whom he attacked were saving lives at the constant risk of their own, to be reminded that "they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging on "a double disloyalty...