Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect in the Houses. Until that happy day, the University may follow one of two roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals. One is inclined to hope that yesterday's manifesto will not commit the University to the former path...
...Away, slight men! You may have been leaders once. You are corporals of disaster now and a safe place for you may be yapping at the flanks but it is not safe to stand obstructing the front of this great army. You might be trampled underfoot -not knowingly but inadvertently-because of your small stature and of the uplifted glance of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is intent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roosevelt...
...seadromes to announce plans for 2,000 new landing fields. The fields will be a gift of the Government to small cities and towns and, indirectly, to the unemployed. Their purpose is to extend the Federal airways system into remote sections, to increase the number of fields for safe intermediate landings, to stimulate local private flying...
...huge platforms, stabilized high above the waves by means of weighted pillars, on problems of anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome's elegant hotel underlying the deck were pricked out with cozy lights...
With Mr. Junge the First Ladies' musical reputations have been safe. He prefers to talk about his farm in Newburgh, N. Y., where he grows grapes and makes wine; or about the House of Steinway for which he was working when the present Steinway heads wore knickerbockers and the factory sprawled over the corner of Manhattan...