Word: safe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...awarded both the Wendell Bat and the Wingate Trophy at the baseball dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. The Wendell Bat, donated by Barret Wendell Jr. '02, was awarded to Captain Burns for totalling the most points in sacrifice hits, stolen bases, runs, and safe arrivals at first base during the past season. The Wingate Trophy, donated by D. J. P. Wingate '14, was given to Burns for being the best all around player of the season...
...Cornell, as may be seen above, repeated its 1921 victory, showing its heels to the Crimson and Green teams for the second successive year in the annual meet. Entering the evening's contest a heavy favorite, it emerged on the long end of the score with a safe ten-point margin over the University. The Hanover runners were a good third, being nine and one half points behind the Crimson team which had amassed 38 1-2 points. During this year W. J. Bingham '16, now Director of Athletics in the University, was head track mentor and while his team...
...that the U. S. bankers interested, since they were not floating the loan but only giving it port facilities, had not asked the State Department to announce its attitude. The objection was impressive, since it put the State Department in the role of a defender of citizens' safe-deposit boxes. The objection was effective. The Chase National notified the State Department that it would "gladly refrain" from carrying out its Soviet depositor's instructions...
...quarter of a ton of Mayors rode out of New Orleans in an automobile one day last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds...
...treaties must be concluded during the year with Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and lesser powers. For the United States is trying to superimpose on the League and Locarno covenants which it has found unacceptable, its own plan for universal peace. In this connection Senator Borah has written, "It is safe to prophesy that the United States will never become identified or cooperate with a system for peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity...