Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word, each of these aspirants possess certain positive claims to prominence which make him a challenging figure in the public eye but which may cause him to be regarded askance by political managers looking for the safe and harmless candidate behind whom a tired convention can swing into line. They must be sure that their dark horse possesses none of the attributes of a white elephant...
...outcome of a resolve passed four years ago by the Legislature of Massachusetts, creating a commission to "investigate means and methods of making the Charles River Basin more safe, suitable, and attractive for recreation and civic welfare purposes", improvements are now under way for the widening of the Charles River Esplanade, construction of a boat haven and breakwater near the Union Boat Club, and the construction of a lagoon, 1000 feet in length, oposite Exeter and Fairhaven Streets, so that the present park will extend with out a break, from the dam to Cottage Farm Bridge...
Continually harassed by Prohibition agents in their Manhattan Night Club, the company decides to carry on henceforth on the safe side of the Rio Grande. There Mr. Overman offers to make Mr. Lahr a bull fighter, working him up to a great pitch of excitement by pointing out that all the women will want to make love to him. As to the dangers, Mr. Lahr has to admit that in his anxiety he had been "making a mountain out of a Dunhill." His courage rises even higher when Mr. Overman drags out a small, moony-eyed calf which he says...
...raised the income tax to war-time rates, threatening to vote down the sales tax. The cry is "to" place the burden of taxation where it belongs". If they succeed the opposition will place all the burden of taxation on incomes and ignore completely the proposed sales tax. This safe and reasonable course seems likely to be chosen in spite of the opposition of the Administration...
...protect its famous photographic collection," he said, "the plates will be taken out of their wooden stacks in a crowded non-fireproof building and stored in vaults safe from fire and moisture. The total number of usable photographs in the Observatory is approximately 350,000. The collection is now growing at the rate of 5000 plates a year. The Harvard collection is five or ten times the size of the next largest; but size is not its only distinction. The maintenance since 1890 of a station in the southern hemisphere has made the Harvard collection unique in that it comprehensively...