Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. I wholly disagree with the arguments of the Government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the nation...
...long run, cannot prevent the formation of unions. Why not concede the fact now and try to promote a spirit of unity between capital, labor, and the public? But capital by its uncompromising attitude is playing into the hands of labor. The latter claim they are forced to threaten with the closed shop. And what is more, labor has at present the public on its side. Capital, to win the people back, must in the very near future make a change of front...
...Pennsylvania's hard hitting nine scored a 6-2 win at Franklin Field. By scoring all six runs in the first four innings the home team held a safe lead throughout the contest which the University could never threaten...
...tried to catch Knowles off first. The visitors tried to score in the sixth on Week's home run, and went ahead in the following inning. Although the University scored one more run in the eighth when they knocked Knight from the box, they were never able to seriously threaten the Brown lead...
What immediately impresses one after a hasty reading of the peace treaty presented to Germany by the allied powers? The large majority exclaim: "Good, the Boche cannot ever threaten to upset the world again, and is getting back, in some measure, what he gave us." Others find in it cause for skepticism. They think that taking Germany's colonies, imposing heavy indemnities, and literally holding down the Hun on every side that he may never rise again, will cause a bitterness to prevail that can never be eradicated...