Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, wealthy Philadelphia widow whose terror of germs once led her to hire a whole hospital floor to keep other patients at a safe distance, willed more than $1,000,000 for civic improvements to Perryopolis, the sooty little Pennsylvania mining town where she was born...
...week's end the press reluctantly dropped the Babe Ruth Story-and a sheetmusic firm brought out a new number, dedicated to the Babe's memory, called Safe at Home...
...your Plutarch and choose a subject familiar to everyone-it counts a great deal." Jacques-Louis David, the painter prophet of the French Revolution, was advising a favorite pupil. "Now give yourself to what really constitutes history painting," he went on. "All other sorts . . . will disappear; only this is safe from men's passions...
...Only when the engine is set up with a pipe to catch its gases is it safe to watch the fires kindle. *The power of jet engines is measured in pounds of thrust. The propulsive horsepower developed varies with the speed. At 375 m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...
...Conditioning. In Wethersfield, Conn., burglars, bothered by the heat, succeeded in cracking a 200-lb. grocery store safe after they had moved it into the cooler...