Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their airports. Boston's Logan International Airport has the longest main runway (10,022 ft.) of any commercial field in the U.S., no tall buildings on the horizon, well-compacted runways that can withstand almost any amount of pounding. It has a new approach lighting system for safe, sure landings in bad weather, and a big, decentralized terminal that minimizes the passengers' ground time, which many experts say may be 25% of all air-travel time in the jet age. The Massachusetts legislature has also voted $18 million for new hangars and a freight terminal to make Logan...
Harvard piously avoided hell and confined itself to teaching safe Anglo-Saxon literature and language, plus a few scattered courses in more modern English writings...
Lowell, president of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company and of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is also a trustee of the Lowell Institute, an organization for promoting adult education in Greater Boston...
Before the Southern Governors' Conference in 1951, a bushy-haired, boyish-looking newsman stood up and spoke unpalatable truths. Said he: "We cannot turn our backs upon injustice simply because a black man is its victim. Nor can we find a safe retreat in the sort of legalistic buck-passing that recognizes the existence of an evil but insists it is somebody else's responsibility...
Slipping Business. In Glasgow, burglars broke into a grocery of the R. & J. Templeton chain, raided it for 8 Ibs. of butter, greased the floor with it, slid the safe to the door, where their getaway truck was waiting...