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Word: safe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's baseball team has averaged almost an even .300 in batting this spring, compared with an average of only .159 made by opponents in games against the Crimson. Out of 503 times at bat the team has pounded out a total of 151 safe hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wood Leads Harvard Batting With .491 Average as Entire Team Hits .300--Devens Has 109 Strikeouts in 78 Innings | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

...Safe in Harbin, Lord Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, decided to send into the dangerous North a subordinate member of the British delegation, William Waldorf Astor, eldest son of Lord & Lady Astor. Promptly U. S. Delegate Major General Frank McCoy volunteered to send with Mr. Astor his aide, Lieut. William S. Biddie of Portland, Ore. (no kin to Philadelphia's Biddies). By airplane Scouts Astor & Biddle left for Tsitsihar, flying over Manchurian steppes infested with Chinese soldiers and bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Astor & Biddle | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...balky horse which breaks into a run when headed toward the stable, the laggard giant DO-X flew briskly homeward to Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Homing DO-X | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...moment, Capitol Hill seemed safe for Public Credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Budget & The Hill | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...such debonair fashion that you are sure he will be executed before the picture ends. There is also a dancing girl (Miriam Hopkins) who is Dmitri's mistress. With her he runs away from the Bolsheviks. When they | reach the seaport of Theodosia, Dmitri thinks that he is safe. He and some of his aristocratic companions are giving a soiree when the town is captured by Kylenko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

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