Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...innovations involved nothing but the use of a wide-angle lens in the same old cameras, and a new screen for such theaters as cared to go to the expense. No prosceniums would have to be torn down, no costly lenses bought. Best of all, the backlog would be safe. Almost all the old pictures could be projected to fill the new, not-so-wide screens. True, about 25% would be lost from the top or bottom of the picture, but as Metro's Dore Schary sanely said. "All you lose is air, anyway." For a few actors...
...When I got back to the hotel, I pulled open the bureau drawer and put my hand on the Gideon and said: 'Lord, never let me be tempted to go on another duck hunt.' Then I called my wife to tell her I was safe...
...first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while," said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. "At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was possible in the so often unsettled past. The coming years should be the happiest and best fulfilled of my entire life." After 34 years as one of architecture's greatest thinkers and teachers, Walter Gropius was starting what amounts to a brand-new career...
...announcement has been made as yet concerning the details of the inaugural, but it is safe to predict that it will be held within the first two weeks of October, as a matter of tradition. Whether the new President's inauguration will more closely mirror President Lowell's lavish three day celebration, or President Conant's relatively austere 15 minute ceremony is anyone's guess...
...takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane to La Paz for which the package was meant is high over the Gulf of California, safe...