Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven. Captain Mahan featured the scrimmage by lifting a perfect drop-kick from the 50-yard line, and on another occasion, when the seconds had lost the ball on the University's 8-yard line after a sensational march down the field, he put his team completely out of danger by booting a 60-yard punt. Robinson, who was given a try-out at quarter, added to the feature with a drop-kick from the 45-yard line. Immediately after this last score, the University was given the ball on the second's 30-yard line and rushed it over...
...fast and tricky open-field running. Whether or not the Harvard line will prove of sufficient strength to let King and Whitney get in some effective line-plunging, remains to be seen. Whichever way the situation is regarded, the University eleven is today in serious danger of meeting a tartar...
...abundance of candidates for fall rowing this season has necessitated these additions to the coaching staff in order to ensure everyone a fair share of coaching and to lessen the danger of keeping good men in inferior crews where they would go backward rather than advance in ability...
...should, however, be said that these excesses of German vitality, so skilfully used by anti-German writers to discredit Germany's position in the present conflict, have not, as is asserted, been a serious danger to the rest of the world. Rather have they been an element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from...
...well able to defend ourselves. Few again, if any, of these men want to increase our military forces in order to go to war; and they are, no doubt, right that a reasonable state of preparation is far more likely to avert than to precipitate hostilities. There is no danger of our becoming a military people embarked upon the career of conquest. But perhaps these men do not fully appreciate the importance to us of preventing wars elsewhere; of using our own preparedness as part of a larger plan of policing the whole world; and of preventing...