Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much in favor of freedom of speech as anybody, but there is something to the clear and present danger concept. Someday somebody's going to pull a muscle trying to get out of Emerson. The windows of Emerson are too high to afford another entrance, and the University has not seen fit to open the other half of the doors. It's up to the student in the street to solve this problem...
Starobin recently declared in a magazine article that "the reactionary, aggressive western Germany which has emerged and continues to be a menace and obstacle to a durable peace is a danger to the American people...
...York papers devoted much space to the shortage in their city. There is supposedly only a 60-day supply lef in the reservoirs. This means that these reservoirs are depleted to only 37 percent of their full capacity and that the city is in danger of finding itself short of water for the winter...
...Socialists (who won 131 parliamentary seats in the last election to the Christian Democrats' 139) have made a .tactical mistake by concentrating their fire on Adenauer's deal with the West, which most Germans welcome. For the time being, Adenauer was in no danger of being ousted by Schumacher...
Freedom of speech and press, and a fortiori, of thought and opinion, are guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment. The only limitation placed upon this freedom is the "clear and present danger" doctrine first enunciated by Justice Holmes in Shenck v. U. S., 249 Us 47 (1919). It is important to note that this doctrine applies when freedom of speech is abused to the point of a person screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre when he knows that no danger of fire exists. It is quite a different matter to apply this limiting doctrine to the realm...