Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws for the whole nation, such as was wholly practical in Great Britain, would inevitably result ... in a dissolution of the Union. ... To bring about Government by oligarchy masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our national Government. . . . We are safe from the danger . . . just so long as the individual home rule of the States is scrupulously preserved...
...first game, played at Providence on May 30, Bill Lincoln hitched up with Ambrose Murray in a twirling duel and emerged with a three hit shutout as his mates collected a trio of tallies on six safe blows off the Bruin hurler...
Does this decision mean that the U. S. has no control over any national economic problem? The simplest example is crop adjustment. Is the Federal Government to take its hands off adjusting crops? If we do, it is a safe bet there will soon be 36? wheat and 5? cotton...
...Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that...
Sixty years ago the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's prime sales talk to prospective passengers was that its trains had been equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. . . . The Union Pacific boasted "one pure passenger train a day" out of Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...