Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possessors of such diverse items as three different versions of the New York Times Index and numerous bibliographic of bibliographics, the reference librarians hardly know where to start when space limitations demand weeding. Thinking themselves safe in disposing of the Dictionary of Islam on adding the ten-volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, they were appalled when, within an hour, a long-haired scholar came to the desk inquiring after the dictionary. The problem of arranging the variegated collection has proven even thornier. In trying to place the reference works on history, language, and geography in a logical order, the staff could...
...Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the write front was cracked. A band of South African Liberals, among them Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton, formed an unashamedly Liberal Party open to all South Africans, regardless of race. The Liberal Party platform: equal rights, made safe by equal votes, for blacks, whites and browns...
...morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States (combined circ. 274,000). Two months ago in the heat of their running battle, the Times-Picayune scored a spectacular beat over the Item. The T-P broke a story that New Orleans detectives had collected $300,000 in a series of safe robberies. After the T-P story broke, the sheriff dragged the canals and bayous, found three stolen safes, including one taken from a local finance company...
...House of Commons and said: "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain and the U.S., and the movie version...
...Thornton and Stearns are keeping them locked in the safe. They claim they "must be kept secret for the protection of innocent as well as punishment of those guilty." Yet as long as it is hush-hush, every faculty member of Colorado University is subject to the same treatment Senator Wyatt dished out last March...