Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League's choice fell, by a safe majority, upon another distinguished U. S. citizen whose whiskers are even whiter and slightly more luxuriant than John Bassett Moore's. Tabulation...
Gradually, as President Ben opened and showed his mind, observers understood why the British Unions were whipped in the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29, 1926), why they have just accepted a 2½% cut in railway wages (TIME, Aug. 6), and why Great Britain is so safe for Constitutional Monarchy and employer Peers...
...plans are a government secret, but it is safe to say that the new ships will be longer and possibly more efficient than the Los Angeles (built in Germany as Zeppelin ZR-3). They will have either Maybach or Packard engines. The top speed of the Los Angeles is 70 m. p. h. and she has made a non-stop journey of 5,060 miles. She carries a crew of 45; but she is capable of carrying 100 passengers, who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside her envelope...
Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe...
...Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able to eat big bowls of soup and a caribou steak...