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Word: safes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's major investments are in U. S. government bonds, public utilities, railroads, insurance companies, A. T. and T., oil companies, and other equally safe and conservative groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dog Food Money Helps University | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Although economists are telling us today to invest abroad to help world recovery, the University investors apparently feel that no foreign country, except Canada, is safe enough for their money. The President and Fellows do have ever $2,000,000 in Canadian bonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dog Food Money Helps University | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...game's end his players carried Enright off the field on their shoulders. His job seemed safe, even if Carolina didn't win another game all year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Thursday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Freedom's Onions. Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance. "The theory of equality may be very daintily discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...time found the Dartmouth cheering stands being serenaded by the Crimson band. It had been announced previously that the visiting stands would get the cold shoulder from the musical organization. They got the serenade, all right, but the big bass drum was left behind. The Harvards were playing it safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Skill Gives Harvard Rooters Weekend Victory | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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