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Word: safer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be eased under new CAB plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Human nature being what it is and sex desire so imperious, it may be far safer for men and women to have sexual intercourse frequently enough so that they do not build up undue tensions regarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...sensations by the spoonful and turned themselves into a salad of all sorts of contradictory human qualities. We today behave in the opposite manner. We imagine that the less different and the less conspicuous we are, the less we shall be noticed by the forces of life and the safer we shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wide, Wide World | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...capable of 8,000 gal. per minute (enough to empty a 20 ft. by 40 ft. swimming pool in less than five minutes), gas generators which have the power of a nine-ton diesel locomotive. Solid propellants such as Thiokol's rubber-base fuels are far simpler and safer to handle. Yet the trouble with solid fuels is that they do not have the power of liquid fuels, cannot be relied upon to burn at a constant rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Rocket's Red Glare | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...Drugs made from curare (South American arrow poison) make surgery safer by relaxing patients' muscles. Similarly, reports the National Heart Institute, a drug named strophanthidin, from an African arrow poison, has been found to reduce the danger of heart stoppage during operations under hypothermia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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