Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presentation of the Wingate Trophy and the Wendell Bat. Both these trophies are awarded annually. The former is given to the best all-around player on the team. The Wendell Bat is awarded on the basis of a point system. One point is credited to a player for every safe arrival at first base, sacrifice hit, and stolen base, and for every run scored...
...dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud had pledged eternal friendship to the Friend of Small Peoples, had royally entertained him at Jiddah...
...another hand- less hairy, more skillful-which during the last year has flown airplanes for 1,251 hours without accident of any kind to plane or personnel, and directed 107 individuals to fly successfully. Lt. J. E. Dyer, U. S. N., was awarded the Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy for safe flying by President Coolidge on December 15. His record exceeds by nearly 500 hours that of any other winner of the trophy. There's a "hand" for you. A. A. DOYLE...
There has been much wholesale criticism of psychopathology on the part of the professors of psychology, but it safe to say that not one of them has ever enjoyed the experience of watching the language of gesture and listening to the free talk of a case of obsessional neurosis day after day for a year or more. In the presence of the insane a professor of psychology is no more at home than a country boy on his maiden voyage at sea, or a savage in the presence of an eclipse of the sun. It is a common error...
...forth to explore Rio's splendors, Mr. Hoover made the gesture of dismissing his secret-service guard. He said he felt perfectly safe among Brazilians. Motors carried the visitors up to Hunchback and Sugarloaf Mountains...