Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became successively a reporter, lawyer, winner of a Distinguished Service Medal in the World War, general counsel for the Dawes Plan and president of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. This made him an expert at international finance, but left him ignorant of commercial banking (in its puny safe B. I. S. has only two coins, one of them a counterfeit, the other a 25? California gold piece). Chunky Leon Fraser left B. I. S. in 1935 for First National. Two years ago, at 47, he moved up to the presidency...
...world has grown so small and weapons of attack so swift that no nation can be safe in its will to peace so long as any other single powerful nation refuses to settle its grievances at the council table...
...Safe as a county fair was aviation's winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
...cure anemia and epilepsy. They doubted that Mylon had swallowed the marbles, or if he had, that they had remained in his stomach for five years. Small, hard objects are usually passed off within a day or two, explained patient Dr. Donnelly, as she ordered another bottle of slow, safe iron compound for still anemic Mylon...
...much damage as the defeat last month of his Iowa political ally, Governor Kraschel. As a boy, however, at the age when most moppets hope to grow up to be President, Henry Wallace once answered a kindly visitor who asked what his ambition was: "To make the world safe for corn breeders...