Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prospective students, who are most often from the zealous areas of each sect, may come in greater numbers to a divinity school which is considered "safe"--one that will not disturb the beliefs they absorbed as children. "Committed men" are a kind of guarantee of "safety...
...bill proclaiming the supremacy of a Parliament not answerable even to the courts, and striking the last 50,000 Colored (mixed blood) voters from the common roll, rode through first and second readings and was ready for final enactment as a constitutional amendment this week. The last constitutional safe guards enacted in South Africa's founding charter of 1909 to protect the rights of non-whites would thus be repealed. For the dispirited remnants of the once-powerful United Party, Opposition Leader J. G. N. Strauss rose to promise an appeal to the supreme court. This was not likely...
...Rowell of Scully Signal Co. and A. B. Van Rennes of M.I.T. describe a method that they have invented for "watching the watchman." The monitor as usual watches all operations of the machine, but when everything is going well, it does not merely sit back and give a "safe" signal. Instead it gives a rapid alternation of safe and unsafe signals. Unless this alternation continues, proving that the monitor is alert and on the job, the machine will shut itself off. If any part of the machine fails (including its readiness to shut itself off if the monitor fails...
Rowell and Van Rennes believe that this basic principle of "exercising" the monitor to prove that it is still alert can be applied to anything from airplane controls to chemical factories. It will not keep them from failing, but it should make them "fail safe," even when the electronic watchman has died...
Michely has tested his hot-water rocket only on the ground, but he thinks it has a bright future in the air, both for horizontally and vertically launched aircraft. Besides its cheapness, it is comparatively safe because of its low pressure and temperature, and its single valve is its only moving part...