Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decrees, proclamations, orders followed by scores as Adolf Hitler finally left Linz at 10:45 a.m. Monday in a six-wheeled military automobile, making slowly for Vienna which Nazis hoped they had made safe by locking up hundreds, including the Duke of Windsor's Jewish ear specialist, Professor Heinrich Neumann and Vienna's Aryan Mayor Richard Schmitz. New laws on all sorts of subjects, including complicated economic regulations, were being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing...
Charlie Ruch and Tom Healey for the victors allowed only two hits, while the regulars pounded the offerings of John Mahoney and Slim Curtiss for eight safe blows...
...remaining passengers, angrily sailed its ship away with 650 personnel, mail, freight. Though the fires were labeled "mysterious" and sabotage was hinted, it seemed possible because of her age that defective electric wiring caused the blazes. Said blunt Captain Fried, "I didn't believe she was safe for passengers. . . . She has had two fires recently. Go look at the third class and I think you'll agree with...
...after another the girls put the uncomplaining Pontiac through tests more fiendish than any proving grounds ever devised. The one who always shifted without touching the clutch quite stole the show. On the way back to Cambridge after the ordeal, Mr. Yordan spouted elements of safe driving and made a pronounced full stop at every "stop" street, which touched the Vagabond's conscience. He resolved to reform. The Bureau for Street Traffic Research and the Newton girls had shown him the light...
...children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...