Word: safes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Working on the theory that any re-routing of traffic in existing channels was only a stop-gap measure, these three devised a revolutionary scheme to redesign the entire Cambridge shopping center (see model). Creating new arteries of traffic and increasing parking space, their blueprint for a safe-and-sane Harvard Square would solve the automobile problem now faced by every city laid out in the days of the horse and buggy...
...while the coach was hoping to use Siamese Piya Chakkaphak, last year's star freshman, at center forward, but Chakkaphak has been declared ineligible. By the time Chakkaphak can return to safe academic water the season will be almost over. Another man Munro will miss is Mal Greenidge, last year's freshman captain, who has dropped out of College...
Sure Ground. It was a lull in the political East-West conflict which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
Typical machines in shoe stores, Dr. Williams found, deliver from five to 58 times the maximum dose considered safe by the American Standards Association and the New York City Health Department. The safe dose is two roentgens for each exposure. The safest machine examined by Williams delivered two roentgens in four seconds; the most dangerous delivered the dose in one-third of a second. Exposures range from five to 45 seconds; the one most often used is 20 seconds...
Even if a single dose is brought down within safe limits, a child is still in danger of overexposure. Most authorities set three exposures in one day, or twelve in a year, as the maximum allowable. But on many machines there is nothing to keep a moppet from pressing the button again & again to see his wiggling toes. And if mother is hard to please, the salesman will want to give her another look...