Word: safest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Railway Association had a proud announcement to make last week: U. S. railroads carried 480,000,000 passengers in 1932 and killed only one of them. He was a railroad employe off duty, traveling in a motorized car which collided with a train. Safest previous year was 1931 when four passengers out of 559,228,000 were killed. Last year also set a new low for injuries: 410 as compared with...
...Hollywood, Reginald Barlow had just called to order a meeting of cinema stars-among them Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Claudette Colbert, Wallace Beery, Richard Barthelmess-to discuss a prospective 50% pay cut . "If this is an earthquake," said he, "I need not remind you that the safest place to be is where...
...Florida crackers think the scrub too bewilderingly wild to live in. But this impenetrable-seeming wilderness of pine and sand was just suited to Lantry Jacklin's taste. Onetime moonshiner in Ca'lina, he had killed a revenue man and fled to Florida; the scrub seemed the safest place he could find...
...belong to the Communist Party, calls himself a "critical Communist sympathizer," has an extremely pretty wife who is a member of the Socialist Party. Last summer they toured Russia. Last week critical Corliss told a meeting of 500 Manhattan radicals to "Buy Soviet 10% bonds! They are the safest bonds on the market today. . . . The once stupid Russian peasant louts are now replaced by as intelligent a people as I have ever met. They are alert to world events, politics, modern thought. True, they have a food crisis and many of them haven't shoes but their devotion...
...been "within two weeks of going off the gold standard." Said he: "Among all the alarums and excursions of the last twelve months we have never been near the point of abandoning the gold standard. Nothing can or will drive us from that standard. . . . American dollars are the safest things in all the world...