Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite these scarehead advance notices, the Freethinkers' meeting resulted in no rows, attracted 900 people, deist or otherwise, who felt in safe enough company with such speakers and endorsers of the congress as H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, C. E. M. Joad. G. D. H. Cole, J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Edouard Herriot, Somerset Maugham. Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings: Science and the Churches; Youth, the Schools and Free Thought; Present Religions Reaction and the Menace of the Vatican...
...Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...
...Ladrone Islands, and Pilot Woods promptly ducked into a cloud. When he reached the end of it, five Japanese planes were on his tail, power diving at the Douglas to force it down. "Japanese planes chasing us," radioed Pilot Woods, then three minutes later: "Forced land river: all safe...
...spectators who lined the course at a safe distance, Thunderbolt, zooming at nearly six miles a minute, looked like a flame (from the exhausts) streaking through a cloud of salt. At the finish of the run, 200-lb. Captain Eyston had trouble getting out of the cockpit. "I had a devil of a time," he chuckled. "The heat of the motor must have swelled my body...
...lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody in Yucatan's capital felt wealthy and safe enough to buy an automobile. But many peons now have land, tools and weapons for the first time in their lives, although few of them are making interest payments to the ejidol banks. Since the land cannot legally be taken from the peasants, these land banks lend on the integrity...