Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only dominates western labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...
...problem, even for Harry Truman. An engineering survey of the 150-year-old White House showed that it was little better than a fire trap, so weakened by age and by stresses set up as a result of haphazard patching and alteration that it could not be made safe without major repairs...
...trajectory, it falls rapidly in the near-vacuum 60 to 100 miles up. When it reaches the denser atmosphere below, it straightens out and begins to revolve. The blades open. Spinning like a maple seed, the rotochute slows down and lands its load of instruments at a safe 27 m.p.h...
Other thinkers have listed football--and the Yale game--with what William James called the "moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the Stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...
Guided by Author Fenwick's inflexible hand, the common man may well proceed to great rewards. The chief reward: being safe from snubs. Author Fenwick deplores "fake fireplaces filled with a fake coal fire, lighted by electricity," deprecates "a shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...