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Word: safes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lock Up the Safe. Actually, the musicians, not Cissy, had done the clutching. To help them out in their first year, she gave them, for a small percentage ("I still have to keep Cissy in ham & eggs"), use of both her Moore Theater and her talents as an impresario, which even her enemies admit are considerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cissy's Battle | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...risk of being considered "subversive" for the rest of her life. Employers may or may not check a girl's college record carefully; if they do, and find that she was a member of the AYD, they will be inclined to turn down her application-- to be on the safe side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe and the AYD | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

...happy, safe and free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: U.N.-o Hits the Spot . . . | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...that he was forced to land in a Rumanian pasture. Lieut. Richard T. Andrews, seeing Willsie go in, landed his P-38 in the same field, and after the damaged fighter had been set on fire took off again . . . with Willsie sitting on his lap. They made a safe landing in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Skeptics. In Viola, Wis., Lester Heal smugly reported to police that burglars had smashed into his safe labeled "No money here," had gone away emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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