Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remedies for the present condition of the country Herbert Hoover would head the list. The name of no other presidential candidate would be considered. . . . It is not the spirit of the American people, when the captain of their ship has guided them through a storm and is approaching a safe harbor, to discharge him and then claim he created the storm...
...York returns. "Well, it's all over," he said. "There's no use in staying up any longer." He was going fishing next day. At the polls, the Vice President-elect had cast two votes for himself-one for Vice President; one, to be on the safe side, for Congressman from Texas' 15th District. He announced he would cotinue as Speaker of the House until March...
...stalwart debater in the British House of Commons, a fine upstanding leader of the poor and oppressed Irish. After his death the name O'Connell was one for any Roman Catholic to revere. Would not an investment banking house named Daniel O'Connell & Co. sound safe? It did until this year...
...small zone of silence. That tells him he is directly over the beacon near the field. That is enough. Completely blind landings are not required. Near perfection after long experiment are a localizing runway beacon and a radio "landing beam" down which the pilot may "slide" to a safe landing. But thus far there is no thought of flying passengers into a completely blind field. (Occasionally Eastern Air mail pilots do land by instrument at Newark in fog so thick that on the ground, with no radio functioning, they must taxi their planes by compass...
...beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took them safe to Australia, where they were all glad to say goodby...