Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perilously over the rail. The cheers that rose at the sight of her familiar, youthful, dignified figure on the Britannia's deck were tinged with relief and thanksgiving. It is part of the family feeling that characterizes the British attitude toward its monarchy that all Britons feel safer when their sovereign is home in England. During the 174 days during which she had traveled by land, sea and air more than 40,000 miles, Elizabeth's subjects in Australia, in Ceylon, in the British West Indies, even in tiny Tonga (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.), had made...
Then he demanded: "Are we any safer . . . because General [George] Marshall was branded as a traitor? No, we aren't. But we are a little less honorable . . . Are we any safer because nonconformity has been practically identified with treason? I think not . . . Are we any more to be feared by the Communists because of all the hundreds of headlines the Senator from Wisconsin has piled up? I don't believe...
AIRLINES are five times safer (per mile of travel) than the family car or taxi, reported Planes, trade journal of the Aircraft Industries Association. In 1953, the scheduled airlines carried almost 31 million passengers more than 18 billion miles, the best safety record in history with a rate of .48 per 100 million passenger-miles. The death rate for cars and taxis: approximately 2.8 per 100 million passenger-miles...
...fight over the therapeutic value of enzymes as natural catalysts (TIME, July 13), the leading spokesman for the affirmative fired off some new evidence last week. Dr. Irving Innerfield of New York Medical College told the Toledo Academy of Medicine that new methods of administering enzymes to patients are safer than the old, and no less effective in speeding recovery from a variety of diseases, including thrombophlebitis, diabetes, rheumatic fever, arthritis and acute eye infections...
...valve scarred by rheumatic fever, which worked well after surgery but has recently begun to leak again. Four of the reunionists had symptoms which led to their being promptly hospitalized for observation and possibly further treatment. But the assemblage proved its point: delicate surgery inside the heart is getting safer, and it can bring many a case, once thought hopeless, back to healthy, happy living. The patients at their dinner dance gave their loudest applause to a doctor who introduced Surgeon Bailey with the words: "He has been close to your heart." Then the recovered patients waltzed and jitterbugged...