Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring regardless of recondite aspersions. The New York World editorialized: "We believe it would be a good idea if the court found out whether the talesmen know a Corot from a Wallace Nutting, and whether the Louvre is an art museum, a hotel or a disease. . . . There is grave danger that the verdict will be i cent to the plaintiff, 'with costs on the said Devinchey...
...became: "Too much sunlight is conducive to cancer of the skin. Thus agricultural workers, sailors and others exposed to the sun are apparently more apt to suffer from the disease than the rest of mankind. The radiation lamps, the review says, cause the same reaction and have elements of danger...
...functions in odd moments stolen from research. Unless the future is to see more emphasis placed upon instruction than on publication, unless tutors, in particular, are to find effective teaching as good a guarantee of promotion as rapid book production, the value of Harvard's educational efforts is in danger of suffering serious decline...
...Anglo-French protocol of May 3, 1875, has repeatedly been blocked by British fear of a subaqueous invasion, and the Englishman's jealous love of his "splendid isolation." Today however even the most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last week even that ruddy, insular, industrial squire, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, took up sturdy...
...last labors was a book,* in which he said: "Let us bear in mind that the best brains and the best energies of our people are given to production; politics is now, and always has been, of secondary interest to most of the people. And there the danger lies." Oscar W. Underwood was an exception to his own theory...