Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Safe Blowing. The afternoon was lengthening and employes of the Bank of England were preparing to dash home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...
...their previous meeting this season, Harvard scored an 11 to 9 triumph over William and Mary at Williamsburg in the spring vacation. Barbee and Cutts were blasted off the mound by the Indians, but the Crimson hitters rallied to tally five times in the ninth. Ketchum held his opponents safe in the final inning...
...Such, newsgatherers discovered, was the nub of the conversation when, last fortnight, Governor Smith ascended from his 15th story room in the Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, to welcome President Coolidge, who was stopping on the 17th floor the evening he addressed the United Press (TIME, May 2). ¶ In a Safe in the office of the U. S. Department of State reposes an object which all good Democrats hope will be taken out in 1929, which many good Republicans trust will remain undisturbed till 1933. The object is the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Cespedes...
...said: "Our great centres of population and civilization have followed the track of the soldiers, who forced their way through the wilderness and made it safe for settlers and pioneers. . . . When President Harding was at Hoboken, watching the ships with the American dead come in from France, he uttered these momentous words: 'It must not be again.' That found an echo in the hearts of the people. But sentiment alone cannot carry us far. It suggests, but does not attain. It requires action if we are to fulfill that great declaration. The agencies charged with this...
...Useful accomplishments are just as easy to teach as those that have no utility except the pleasure they give such as 'pat-a-cake' or 'How big is baby?' A number of tricks that a small baby can learn are helpful in keeping him safe and well...