Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effects, and in most cases, with a prompt and dramatic increase in the blood-borne antibodies which give protection against polio. Cautious Dr. Salk made no claim that he had found the answer to the perils and paralysis of polio. There may be several ways of producing a safe and inexpensive polio vaccine, he said, but none is yet ready for general use. That goes for his vaccine...
...rise it drops ballast. The Trieste's ballast is four tons of iron filings stowed in containers in the floater. Electromagnets, which make iron filings stick together, keep the ballast from moving. When their current is cut off, the filings flow into the sea. This system "fails safe." If anything happens to the ship's power supply, the ballast is dropped automatically. Then the Trieste, lightened, will rise to the surface...
...Captain's Paradise (London Films; Lopert) is a wonderfully funny little immorality play about how the Old Adam tries once again to have his apple and eat it too. The Adam in this instance is a middle-class Englishman who looks as safe as porridge-until the moviegoer looks again and sees that the part is being played by Alec Guinness, who, in recent films (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Promoter), has been hilariously demonstrating that the dullest-seeming people may be the most fascinating monsters...
...short, as Author Gary acknowledges by quoting it, his hero is afflicted with the old Cavalier conviction: "I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honor more." Explicitly, his duty is to keep making the world safe for the kind of love he lives for. Rainier rails at some of the practical aspects of such duties. "Oh you statesmen of bad breath!" he declaims. "How dare you spend hours in your councils listening to anything that is not a sound of a lover's kiss...
...primary educational purpose of law review work (by relegating it to the role of a by-product of legal education, which may be a correct denomination for the final printed page), or it views the opportunity as an educational experience to be restricted to those disparagingly labeled "the safe" by Harvard's President, Doctor Pusey...