Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Look forward to the important crises of your life. They are nearer than you are apt to imagine. It is a very safe protective rule to live today as if you were going to marry a pure woman within a month. That rule you will find a safe guard for worthy living. It is a good rule to endeavor hour by hour and week after week to learn to work hard. It is not well to take four minutes to do what you can accomplish in three. It is not well to take four years to do what...
Jinx One Lester Price, 23, ambled through Philadelphia's narrow streets. He was hungry, tired, and just after passing a cathedral's steps he noted a door open in a nearby residence. He entered, slept, awoke hours later, beheld a safe the lock of which opened readily. He beheld cash, bonds, ecclesiastical jewelry, a chalice and a golden, diamond-studded cross belonging to the owner of the residence, Cardinal Dougherty. Lester took the jewelry, cash, bonds, valued at $4,000-left the chalice and cross worth over $25,000. "I knew they would jinx me," he said when...
Engineer William B. Stout, Henry Ford's air chief (TIME, Aug. 9) predicted: "Airplanes will be made so safe and at such a reasonable cost during the next five years, that the average man who owns an automobile will be able to buy a plane. . . . The man on the ground has an idea that airplane riding will make him sick and be too thrilling. As a matter of fact there is not as much 'kick' in flying as there is in fast automobile riding...
What makes the majority of people prefer the "nice, safe" ground to flying around the heavens in airplanes, is a maxim they used to read in their copybooks: "What goes up must come down." It is not likely that this maxim will ever be disproved, but there are ways and ways of "coming down." Refinements upon the art of gentle descent began at least five centuries ago when a quaint babu hugely diverted the court of Siam by jumping off the roof with two umbrellas hooked in his girdle...
Though the evidence is not yet complete, it seems safe to conclude that Mr. Planalp exaggerated; that in each of the 110 millions of people in the U. S., there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome...