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Word: safe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct a sit-down strike on an American vessel was fully established at Baltimore." C. I. O. Attorney William Standard denied that any such principle had been laid down. On the contrary, said he, the best established U. S. court precedent is that a strike aboard a ship in safe harbor is not mutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wages of Sin | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...thus far achieved a 21% saving in sudden death. Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance rates. Lowest rate was for Class A motorists, those who in the first 21 months of the last two years had no accidents, or one involving only property damage. In Manhattan, where the annual premium for a basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Price of a Tire | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

According to his investigations both the youthful driver in his 'teens and twenties and the elderly driver in the fifties are less safe than the adult in his thirties and forties. Middle-aged drivers are the safest on the road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Age Autoists Are Least Safe of All Highway Drivers, Claims De Silva | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...odds against expulsion are approximately 16-1, seemingly rather safe, but the 129 men whose connections were severed at Finals last year were deceived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPULSION ODDS ONLY 16 TO 1 IN THE COLLEGE | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico in a false-bottomed car for safe keeping. Last week he was charged with shaking down 33 ambitious policemen and firemen for sums ranging from $50 to $450, forcing the civil service department to alter unsatisfactory grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Reform Over Los Angeles | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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