Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret the inaccurate and provocative headline (Bender Threatens Expulsion for Any Yale Game Vandals) which the CRIMSON used on its story about Yale game week-end rules which appeared Tuesday morning. The Dean's Office does not threaten students. It expects Harvard students to behave with a reasonable degree of intelligence and sense of responsibility to their college without being "threatened" like schoolboys, and we are rarley disappointed. We have had no trouble from misguided childish pranks by Harvard students at other colleges for many years and I see no reason to expect such trouble this year...
...brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
...Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property, but the custom has grown of turning anyone caught over to the freshmen, instead of the University police. Solemn rites are then performed on the victim, his hair is shaved off, and a bright red "S" painted on his pate...
Then, in the last decades of the 19th Century, a mighty competitor arose to threaten British trade. U.S. productivity caught and then far surpassed Britain's. The leadership in world finance and trade passed into American hands. Declining Britain could no longer earn enough abroad to pay for what she needed to buy abroad to maintain her living standard...
Gratitude. Franklin Roosevelt, assuming office as the economy President (a phase that did not last long), ordered a 25% cut in pensions for disabled veterans. When a big Legion rally in Long Beach, Calif, started to threaten a second march on Washington, National Commander Johnson hustled to the scene, talked down the first angry boos which greeted him, and persuaded the Legionnaires...