Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which show that the guarantees to Turkey under the 1923 Convention demilitarizing the Dardanelles run the risk of being slow and difficult to apply." In other words, if the onetime Allies could not force Germany to keep the Rhineland demilitarized, how could they be expected to keep the Dardanelles safe against a surprise attack by, say, Italy...
Explosive from Corn, Professor Edward Bartow, president of the American Chemical Society, has 25 lb. of inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance about twice as explosive as dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn...
Behind the seven-hit pitching of John R. Mahoney '37 and paced by three safe blows off the bat of Richard C. Stuart '38, the Junior Varsity diamond workers defeated Rindge Tech 12-2 here yesterday...
...gongs clanged from nine ungainly buildings in Florida's Lake Okeechobee and Keys regions. The radio clicked out storm warnings. Citizens flung together their belongings, sped to the nearest of the nine houses. Behind reinforced concrete walls, they waited until the hurricane had blown itself out. Then, safe & sound, they went back to what was left of their homes...
...such recurrent crackups as beset Overland Airlines (see above) have marred the bright record of seagoing Pan American Airways. In seven years of flying-boat service from Florida to South America, Pan American, up to last week, had seriously injured no passenger. Safe as a church seemed the 19-ton Clippers which have flown the run for two years. Yachts with wings, they had plenty of water to land on in case of trouble. Last week something happened to a southbound Clipper before it left the harbor of Trinidad's Port-of-Spain...