Word: safely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following : "There is a street-car conductor in Chicago who is a college graduate, and can also converse in all the modern languages. He might, you know, be a college graduate and still be ignorant of French, German, etc. This conductor (and he is not, it would be safe to wager, the only one of his kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor...
...frequency with which notices asking for the return of "borrowed" umbrellas appear on the bulletin board at Memorial makes plain to everyone, and particularly to those who have been "borrowed" from, the necessity of some safe method of caring for umbrellas left there. As it is now, a man either leaves his umbrella in the stand outside, with the somewhat unpleasant consciousness that the chances are about one in five he will find it "borrowed" on his return, or else he carries it, wet and dripping, into the dining room with him. Truly it seems as though some remedy were...
...would not be safe to draw any inferences from this game as to the relative strength of the team which Harvard will put into the field for the championship games and our own. For, in the first place, the game played by the Wesleyan team against Harvard cannot be compared with any game which it has played against us. The Wesleyan team has improved astonishingly since it has played us. The kicking of the half-backs was way above average, while the rush line is made up of some superior materials. The determined and business-like way in which...
...famous reply-Poverty. Poverty! when a hundred lives may be endangered for want of what a few dollars could buy. Such an excuse is unworthy of any weight. Let them procure the money by any means, but let them see to it that our death-traps be made decently safe. Not one of the gentlemen who represent the corporation would allow such a thing if he could personally help it, we are sure, and why then cannot the corporation as a body somehow gain foresight enough to do what each member of it would do singly? This playing with danger...
...meeting of the directors of the Dining Association yesterday, it was voted to buy a safe for the use of the auditor; to have placards placed in the gallery requesting visitors to remove their hats; and the following resolution was unanimously passed...