Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...brought out a new magazine which he calls the Fly Leaf. It is in minature, on the order of the Chap Book and has about as little provocation. These little publications of indecent drivel are cropping up in such numbers that they have become a positive plague. The great danger is that, in time, people may come to take them seriously. So long as they are regarded as comic papers, however, they will be harmless if not amusing...
sage of December, 1879 called the attention of Congress to the danger of legaltender notes: McPherson, Handbook, 1880, p. 7.- (g) Both England and France have issued legal-tender notes under circumstances similar to our issue, but retired them directly after the exigencies which demanded them were over: Forum...
...attack until Rosecrans could atone for his former negligence by skilfully changing his entire front to meet the danger...
...following public statement is made by S. S. Pierce and Co., of Boston, as an act of very necessary justice to a Harvard student whose reputation has been in danger of suffering at their hands...
...result of the recent war between Japan and China, a university and preparatory school are to be established at Tien-Tsin. Plans for the university were begun ten years ago, but the whole scheme was in danger of falling through, till the recent war finally brought it to a successful issue. The university will be under government control, and will have a competent corps of foreign professors. Mr. C. D. Tenney is the first president. He was formally a tutor to the sons of Li Hung Chang. The latter, with other officials, has donated money with which a building...