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Coal mining is " one of the safest occupations in the United States," according to statistics filed by operators with the United States Coal Commission. State insurance figures show that 100 regular occupations are more dangerous. Window cleaning, operating farm machinery and carpentry are listed as exposing workmen to greater danger of injury and death than work in the mines...
...Great Incohee. The appointment of committees is essential, as well as the keeping of class records, and the dispensing of the class wampum in scholarships and other expenses. All this power concentrated in one man, is unwieldy and open to criticism, just or unjust, for all sides. The safest way is to keep the Incohee (whether great or otherwise) and his able assistant the past great Pocahontas, each limited to his own duties...
...safest thing for New York to do is to forget the crime wave idea, now that it has successfully aroused the slow-witted public. Its existence is not nearly so important as the fact that the police cannot handle what crime there is, which is plenty enough. Commissioner Enright has not denied the many charges of incompetence. If there has been favoritism or dishonesty in any form, this ought far more to be in the public mind than the "to be, or not to be" of a crime wave which may serve well as a means to reform...
...true--that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...Aeromarine sea plane is a plane designed primarily for training purposes. It has dual control, wings pitched upward to prevent skidding and other features which have won for it the reputation of being the safest plane that the Navy ever flew. A speed of 65 knots can be attained in it. The Aeromarine has the pontoon beneath the lower plane which distinguishes it from the flying boat in which the cockpit is in the hull, and the motor above the pilots head. In the Aeromarine the engine is in front of the pilot...