Word: threateningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President chose to speak in a roundabout way to the Government of Mexico. Recently the Mexican Congress passed land laws which are believed to threaten American property rights in Mexico as guaranteed by existing treaties. President Calles however has not yet approved the bill. To correspondents assembled at the White House, President Coolidge intimated that of course the U. S. assumes that Mexico will live up to her treaties...
...which he said was "often a help and never a hindrance to our efforts." He also issued an official statement, in part as follows: "I am full of gratitude that it has been given to me to represent my Sovereign at such a moment. The treaties initialed at Locarno threaten no one, are directed against no nation, secure the safety of many and are welcomed...
...Taking the Bible itself as an authority dissipates many of the difficulties which threaten to make a gulf between religion and science...
...Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England are made cooperatively in order that the British rate may always be slightly higher and thus avoid heavy gold exports to this country. New York Reserve rate is now 3%%, and a rise to 4% would consequently threaten the British gold supply and the sterling gold standard...
...powerful defensive play of the forward line, with Coolidge, left end, playing the stellar role, was the feature of the initial encounter. Not once did St. John's threaten to score, never approaching nearer than Harvard's 35-yard line. So superior were the scrub forwards that even the visitors kidking game was unable to function, kicks being constantly blocked...