Word: safe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other researches in progress deal with the problem of the safe landing of airplanes in thick weather an electric-wave technique which is new being used in an attack on the problem of cancer and the commercial application of electric oscillations as a means of standardizing the thickness of paper and rubber during their manufacture...
...city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South...
...Guggenheim Fund safe aircraft competition will be derided next October. A dozen airplane manufacturers are enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...
...chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement...
...game was a pitchers' battle throughout with Charles Devens '32 the Freshman hurler allowing only three singles and with the 1932 batters knocking out four safe hits...