Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conclusion, Morse pointed out that a continuation of the subtle hatred among the peoples of the Transvaal would threaten English interests in all South Africa; and that the only way to secure the desired harmony between the Dutch and the English was to grant to the Uitlanders full rights in the South African republic...
...Harvard management certainly can not now threaten to print the names of those who sell their seats, and probably can not offer to take back returned seats at face value. The only thing to be done is to remind undergraduates that by refusing to sell tickets to speculators they may prove themselves worthy of the rights they are claiming in the allotment of seats. UNDERGRADUATE...
...been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom contains within itself elements which threaten its existence. The adjustment of the demands of the free laborer is the chief problem of humanity today and the Pope's Encyclical, points the solution...
...second speaker for Princeton was R. M. McElroy '96. Reminding the audience that his colleague had already shown how the government was in no way suited to issue legal tender notes, he went on to point out various other reasons for retiring them. He said that their presence continually threaten the financial situation of the country. Confidence is the basis of all financial success. We have $1,000,000,000 of notes resting on a nominal gold reserve of $1,000,000, which may at any time sink lower. The depletion of the gold reserve takes away foreign confidence with...
...Lowell was no more thoroughly convinced that the Mexican war was a sin against humanity than we are that a war with England about the Venezuelan frontier would be the great crime of the age. No one pretends that we ought to threaten war merely in defence of Venezuela; but we are told that we must rally to the defence of the "Monroe! Doctrine." This doctrine is now more than seventy years old, and it is its spirit rather than its letter with which we are concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect...