Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maynard L. Ginsburg (TIME, July 3) and writing my first, last and only communication to any magazine, in order to contribute my mite to the avalanche of criticism he has brought down upon himself by that moronic letter. Freaks, indeed! Down with TIME, then, to make the world safe for Husband Ritter and his ilk. For as long as that splendid magazine exists, there will be appreciative, intelligent and up-to-the-minute freaks who read it from cover to cover, 52 weeks of the year. Tsch, Tsch, poor Wife Riller...
...frequency, E C and C E. S E and E S, E T and T E, N O and 0 N. The present keyboard, Professor Dvorak discovered, has many one-handed words which make the left hand do 47% more work than the right. Examples: greater, greatest, sad. saddest, safe, safer, was, were, care, dare, fare, minimum, you, in, on. On the Dvorak-Dealey keyboard no word or syllable can (he says) be written by the right hand alone, and only about ten common words and a very small number of syllables with the left hand alone. High school misspellers...
...last week. Seasoned observers pointed out that the issue is actually not recognition but credits. Only in case the R. F. C. or some other great font of U. S. credit is opened to the Soviet Union would U. S. producers, still profoundly suspicious of Josef Stalin & Co., feel safe in accepting the flood of orders which Russia has stood ready for years to give on credit...
...pretty near, and I save $18,000 this year if I put in that safe, and I save $18,000, I keep on my pocket for two weeks. Then somebody...
...Last Flight." A late afternoon breeze blew suddenly in from squally Lake Michigan, whipping up violent swells in front of the seaplane ramp at the Chicago World's Fair. Said an employe of the airplane sightseeing service to the pilot: "Do you think it's safe for landings?" Replied Pilot Carl Vickery: ''I'll try one last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave...