Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist was tattling on his trade. "Standard practice," he wrote, "is to correct a wrong like 'Joe Blow is a crook' by printing, as many days later as is safe, something that goes 'Don't believe those things you hear about Joe Blow...
Nothing Can Equal Me. The idols of the expatriates-James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Valery, Andre Gide-were for the most part hardworking, serious writers who lived at a safe distance from their rambunctious disciples. When Sinclair Lewis - arch-progenitor, to the average expatriate, of "the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing"-visited Montparnasse and sat himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal...
...five-to-one majority would place Radcliffe in the strongest position, numerically at least, to destroy this threatening encroachment of their relatively safe domain. But whether 30 'Cliffedwellers can do more than a smaller but well-organized 23-woman Wellesley force remains to be seen. In any case, it looks like a close, thing...
...richer lode will be tapped if private U.S. capital can be lured back into Mexico. Last fortnight at Monterrey, Treasury Minister Ramon Beteta urged U.S. bankers to invest in Mexican Government bonds-"as safe and secure as any in the world." The bankers listened respectfully. But U.S. capital, once grievously burned by expropriation in Mexico, still fears the heat from the Revolution's embers...
...answer foreign demands that China show a little interest in democracy, now that the brave new post-war world has reared its ugly head over the land of squeeze. Elections will not be held before next December, so party hacks have plenty of time to arrange for a safe majority. In the meantime, the Kuomintang had to shunt off insinuations and questions concerning "one-party rule...