Word: safe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underworld calls Badman Burke "professor." He is a scientific felon, a specialist in safe door melting, wire tapping, hijacking, disguises. In his St. Joseph hideout were found chemistry and metallurgy textbooks, also 200 thumb-greyed detective novels, with criminals' blunders underlined...
...drift into such an international tangle. Already bothered by a bad head cold, he sent the Texas executive a message, promising "to see what, if anything, may be wisely done" and observing further: "The Mexican reason [for the consulate closing] is . . . because they feel that Laredo is not a safe port for their public citizens to pass through. . . . Mexicans find it difficult to understand that you have not found it possible . . . to ameliorate the conduct of legal officers of that country. . . . If any effort can be taken along that line, I wish you would advise...
...recess perhaps during the Five Power Naval Conference, was evident last week when the bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came up for its second reading. In no sense Communist or Radical, the bill epitomizes Scot MacDonald's own brand of "safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board" of big business and labor leaders; 3) creation of a "National Coal Marketing Board" to coordinate the whole industry and present a united...
...funneled Italian freighter steamed into Gravesend, England, last week and tied up safely at its pier. Flags on other craft dipped a salute, sirens screamed. In London a relieved Lady Chamberlain telegraphed to Premier Mussolini that his ship was safe...
...piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city is in full swing, with industries, entertainments, police, prostitution and crime. The German prisoners, with great patience and ingenuity, forge banknotes. Gradually, long...