Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team defeated the All-Massachusetts team on Holmes Field by the score of eight goals to none. The Harvard team was much the stronger, and at no time did Massachusetts have a chance of winning. In fact only once was Harvard's goal in danger. Harvard made four goals in the first and four in the second half...
Other modern French critics, such as Lemaitre and Bourget, are novel-writers, poets, playwrights besides, and therefore in danger of being prejudiced; M. Brunetiere is a critic and nothing else, unless, indeed, his desire to propagate pure science and his intimate knowlege of life lead us to think of him as a scientist and a philosoper, both of which titles he disclaims...
...commodities whose costs of production constantly change be kept at a fixed ratio? The very treaty formed to maintain a ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been...
...opening, Mr. Bonaparte pointed out that the task of civil service reform is the same as it has been for the last thirty years. The same evils are to be fought whether they are found under the name of Republican or Democrat. The particular danger is the same as it has been, that of patronage in its influence on legislation...
...such a busy people, with such diversified interests that we are inclined to regard our political evils as petty failings that will soon pass away. But there is danger of too great confidence. Corruption creeps slowly. Either Americans must improve their government or it will debase them...