Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colin, age four, "has a lightness of touch and a dexterity that will certainly put him on top of the heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric...
...thousand Harvard kidneys are safe from kidney stones, at least those stones brought on by a large consumption milk. William A. Heaman, Manager of Dining Halls, revealed last night that the Harvard undergraduate, contrary to his liquid-loving Yalie counterpart, drinks an average of two glasses per meal...
...historian can make any safe generalization about Roosevelt's years at Harvard, it is probably this: T. R. was very different from his fellow students. He was, as Henry F. Pringle noted in his Pulitzer-prize-winning biography, a "fish in a strange pond"--his tastes, his energy, and his enthusiasm set him off from his fellows...
...bourgeois," recalls one, "and we used the materials we felt safe with. We worked through the Rotary Club, the bar association, the medical association." At first they held a long "civic dialogue" with Batista, aimed at persuading him to hold a fair election. That failed. "Then we tried military action, thinking that a few key leaders here and there would do the trick." Batista got wind of this plot, led by Lieut. Colonel Ramón Barquin, and squashed it handily (TIME, April...
...Hands ransacked the headquarters at No. 7 Persian Street; they searched Shoghi Effendi's safe-deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...