Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted to cut the punching season drastically. As a result, though the clubs began sifting through last year's Freshman Register early in the term for likely candidates, no canvassing could begin before Friday, November 13th. But after that no graduate of what the College terms "Special Preps" is safe: an alumnus of the Episcopal schools, St. Paul's, St. Mark's, Groton, may receive punch invitations from a majority of the clubs. Preliminary punches are generally held in the College room of a club member, since non-members among the undergraduates are not allowed within the club houses...
Attempts of this sort, cloaked in an aura of 125 percent patriotism, have had a remarkable effect in producing legislation which has progressively invaded civil liberties, but which has only modified rather than exterminated the "Communist conspiracy." Curtailments of civil liberties are necessary in wartime, but safe because of their acknowledged temporary nature. But even though peacetime infringements of civil liberties often prove more effective in bothering loyal Americans than in crimping the work of Communists skilled in evasion, they are seldom repealed and remain as a permanent monument to hysteria...
Because of this ruling, the girl who wishes to cheat is actually only slightly less safe from exposure in a mixed exam than she is in an all-Radcliffe exam. Harvard regulations provide for one proctor for every 30 students taking the test; Radcliffe requires only one proctor in each examination room, no matter how many students...
...isolation of polio virus in apparently pure form will be of enormous help to researchers in their efforts to produce a safe and effective vaccine against the disease. Many of the hazards connected with the older and relatively impure virus preparations can be eliminated. Chemists can study the makeup of the particles as a first step to finding out why they behave as they do, and how to reduce their ravages...
...Does this mean that every top executive ... is a lecherous old wolf? ... Of course it doesn't. Your graduates will be perfectly safe . . . But it does mean that your intelligent, attractive girl will have a well-paid job till she marries . . . Your lovely looker will move into a stuffy tycoon's office and unstuff the stuffy...