Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...splendors of the Library of Congress, two attendants on the second-floor gallery carefully wrestled a 17-inch square bronze frame into a metal stand. One of wrathful King John's four copies, brown and dim with age, its Latin screed legible only to the learned, now rested safe in Washington, capital of a nation two centuries undiscovered when the barons camped at Runnymede...
...like our own national, institutions must be very securely and deeply anchored on reality." It is startlingly evident that Lord Halifax feels he is better qualified to interpret the "will of the peoples" than those who propose world federation. As for the "reality" he prizes so highly, it is safe to assume that its cornerstone is the maintenance of "business as usual" for the British Empire...
...when he lands he may collapse with violent headache, dizziness, nausea, muscular weakness, mental confusion. Chronic altitude sickness may ground a flier for over a month. Only pressure cabins or oxygen masks will forestall the disease. And even with these precautions, warns Dr. Armstrong, "it cannot be considered a safe practice to fly over 20,000 feet where the safety of the flight depends upon the inhalation of oxygen...
...About one-sixth of Barcelona's population had safe shelters and more than 50% had much better protection than anything that now exists in Britain...
...funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer to a new stage of perfection, for not a scene is safe from his clowning...