Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...censure there is on this score can easily be overlooked. There were two things that occurred in the race, however, which need to be spoken of in order that they may be avoided in the future. The tug boats kept so close to the race that they put in danger the freshman boat which was just in front of them. Besides this, two of the tugs that kept fouling each other added to the danger. This trouble was caused by the men who stood up in front of the pilot house and made it impossible for the pilots...
...filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah was a determined opponent of all foreign alliances, and even when Sennacherib was besieging Jerusalem was, unwilling to call upon Egypt for assistance. He advised the people to put their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with some disaster which forced him to return home. It was then supposed that this was owing to the direct intervention of Jalweh. The prophets said that the Assyrian invasions were to punish the Jews for their idolatry, but the invaders themselves had no such...
...will be presented tomorrow evening. We congratulate the Society on its enterprise. It is a tendency of all societies formed for purposes of educational improvement to degenerate and lose their vitality as time goes on and the novelty wears off. The Conference Francaise seems to be in no such danger and the deep interest taken by the members in all the proceedings of the club predicts for it a long and useful life. The play of tomorrow night is one of the noted French farces written by M. Labiche and can hardly fail to be interesting and amusing...
...enables dynamite bombs to be fired. If shot from a cannon the sudden shock explodes the bomb immediately, and the connon is destroyed. But by the use of compressed air in a long tube, thus imparting the velocity gradually, a 1000-pound bomb can be fired two miles without danger to the cannoneer, but with most disastrous effects on the object aimed at. The common notion that force is needed to maintain motion is erroneous; force is only needed to overcome resistance. Without opposition motion would continue forever after being once started. The planets continue to move only because...
...times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes of the people and worked them into forms of enduring beauty, and why should their example not be followed to-day? The present situation is critical. Education tends to mere materiality, and here lies the great danger of our times. What are our young poets doing to resist this tendency, and how are they advancing the cause of the ideal? In London they do mere dilettante work; they are wedded to sonnets, triolets and rondeaus. They spend their time in a mere elaboration of saying nothing, instead...