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Word: securing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...priority on instruction. None of the humor would draw a belly laugh today, though it was probably uproarious at the time; e.g., "We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek. The good Man, 'tis said, prudently secur'd his Fiddle, and let his Wife go to the Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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