Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first breathtaking news about $100,000 lifted from a University safe reached here recently when the man who masterminded the heist made a full confession in the pages of last week's Collier's magazine...
...Reader Daniel has a point, but a debatable one. Other readers in another century raised the same question -but, said the London Times in 1896: "On the whole, we may consider we are tolerably safe in holding that the next century begins on January...
...young officer grinned and relented. On a map which showed the houses to be demolished he drew a small circle around the Hawkings place; the little bit of Britain stubbornly holding out against China's civil war was safe again, for the moment...
...life than has been believed. One great discovery concealed or slurred over by previous biographers is that much of Emerson's life was dull. Moreover, Rusk admits that he has been greatly attracted by one aspect of Emerson-his struggle "to keep his little area of personal freedom safe from encroachment." The emphasis is consequently upon his independence, his reserve with family and friends, his ties with and his distance from the members of his congregation and the citizens of Concord...
...Connecticut Valley Educators have attacked the Washington decisions as "establishing the principle that an instructor may be dismissed solely upon the basis of his political beliefs without regard to academic performance or qualifications . . . the continuation of this policy will lead inevitably to a colorless orthodoxy of 'safe 'ideas." Other educator groups are also protesting...