Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody doubted it: Harvard needed a new bridge. The Boston Post suggested in 1911 that "somebody with a good, plump bank account might well devote some of its surplus age to the building of a safe and artistic Harvard bridge. That ramshackle old contraption is a peril and disgrace to the two cities that appear to be waiting for it to fall into the Charles, which it will probably do some fine day. Where is the millionaire who will immortalize himself and serve posterity by building a new bridge...
According to Detective John Galligan, one of the man assigned to the case, the thieves entered through a back door, and failing to open the safe, dragged it the length of the floor and took it to a waiting...
Galligan's partner, Sergeant Alfred Markini, calculated that more than one man participated because of the weight of the safe. Police have discovered no witnesses, but are laying in wait for the burglars to repeat their caper in the same manner...
...Cash Cache" by John Limpert, although a little tedious in spots, shows what a Mosler impregnable, atomic-proof safe can do to the perishable thought of a spring morning. And the "Charles River," Updike's contribution to the frontispiece, cites the popular misconception about springtime joys on the banks of the Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink...
...Narrow but safe," breathed a relieved Yoshida supporter. Having again proved himself the most powerful man in Japan, Yoshida climbed into his black Chrysler to motor back to his Oiso retreat, there to take off his wing collar and brown business suit, slip into a comfortable kimono and white tabi, and contemplate his forthcoming trip to the U.S. and Europe...