Word: safe
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...safe to say that not one of Harvard's fifteen hundred undergraduates will go without a Christmas dinner a week from tomorrow; most of them will probably overeat...
...chart the exact course of Harvard's unnumbered individuals in her offence, labored with plotting-boards, range-finders, eleven observers and gyroscopic compasses, threw away their instruments in disgust and concentrated on computing the energy released when 70,000 occupants of the Bowl roared in unison. The offense was safe for another year...
Perhaps the greatest invention to make for the safe navigation of ocean-going ships since the introduction of the sextant and wireless, has been the gyroscopic-compass. Since the first introduction of the mariner's compass by the Chinese, every ship's compass, however improved the type, has depended upon the magnetic properties of the earth for its direction, and been subject to no end of disturbing forces arising from iron and steel in the construction of the ship itself. Many marine disasters have been caused by local disturbances of which the ship-master himself was not aware. The well...
Lastly, we must note that the present apparently dormant state of disorder in Mexico in neither safe nor stable. The Porfirista faction, led by Mr. Felix Diaz and supported by the old land-owning families, is still very powerful; while the Church party, under General Pelaez, is fast-increasing. General Gonsalez, a disappointed aspirant to the Presidency, has a substantial backing of popular opinion. The bandit Villa is in condition to cause considerable trouble when he considers it convenient to do so. Finally, General Salvador Alvarado, a self-avowed aspirant to the office of the Chief Executive and a notorious...
...protection, and I do not believe that it is necessary for Harvard, in order to be good sportsmen, to discard the results of this ceaseless effort. A football play cannot be patented but I see no reason why the product of the brain should not be given all reasonable safe-guards...