Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single. Two more one-base hits, and an error by Mays, turned what looked like a sure double-play into three quick tallies, all in as many minutes of play, and Harvard came to bat when it was all over with a discouraging deficit. Both sides tightened up playing safe and uninspired ball until a lusty single by Mays in the third frame started trouble for the leaders. Thacher and Wood advanced him with nicely placed singles and Lupien followed on with a double, scoring Mays and Thacher. The Crimson team evened the score two innings later when Mays received...
...noble contingent which had penetrated Bertram swept off with the dinner gong and the keys. Did they get invited to have some ice cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that it must be Browne and Nichols and someone else threw out an empty cartoon of ice cream, in self defense one must surmise and thereby rose the tale. And that about the lurid detail of swinging red lanterns? We believe someone...
...Safe Medusa...
TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING -Lewis E. Lawes-Long &; Smith ($3). Not chance but a childhood in Elmira, half a mile from the New York State Reformatory, brought Warden Lawes to his prison-keeping career. On Saturday afternoons, from a safe distance, the boy watched the Reformatory inmates at work. They did not look very unhappy or dangerous to him. And the uniformed guards were things of beauty, in their way. At 17 he was in an Army uniform himself. Three years of drab post-Spanish-American War service led him to seek a career elsewhere...
...intention to lean on authority, but Mr. Samuel Clemens was not the first to comment on the weather of Boston and its on-virons. Nor, indeed, was he the last; we, in our time have been moved to expressions of opinions which your estimable sheet would certainly not be safe in printing. If the vernal urge, whatever that is, is at any moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever in the cold clamminess of an April evening in (or near) Boston...