Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...aware that there is danger lest these victories make the nines worse rather than better fitted for the harder games which are to come. To believe, because some victories have been won, that others will come as a matter of course is a provoking foolishness against which every team must fight. A victory ought to stimulate, not to demoralize. There is more encouragement now for hard, unremitting work, and this hard, unremitting work is the one thing to be done. The best time to be elated is when the season is over...
...death. Nothing, however, could be learned definitely as to his fate, and we were not forced to abandon the hope that he might yet prove to be alive. His mother was very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston papers and, without exception, they consented to make no mention of the young man's name on the following morning. It was a subordination of business enterprise to humane sentiment...
...Memorial will bring matters to an issue. That some such plan was bound to come in the course of time has long been evident. With regard to the details of the plan actually presented, it strikes us that the number at club tables has been put needlessly and dangerously high. Eighteen men to fourteen seats would be a safe proportion. The danger increases rapidly with every further increase in the number...
...naturally in the time of war which is of its very nature a time of sacrifice. But there is plenty of room for the spirit of patriotism in peace. If a man is willing to sacrifice himself for his country he can always do something for it. The great danger of our country is now the lack of just this spirit of unselfish patriotism. Our government at Washington is chiefly made up of men who have no thought for the best interests of the country and who do not concern themselves with any duties of government further than they find...
...Danger of the rejection of good nominations is not greater than that resulting from hasty or ill-advised appointments. Responsibility for such rejections falls upon the legislature...