Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flies will not be won without overcoming stubborn resistance Travellers in Italy this summer may expect to witness at any time battles between great swarms of embattled flies and heroic groups of warriors, protected by a barricade of fly-paper and yielding swatters with deadly effect. But the chief danger is to the Premier himself. So far he has managed to protect himself from would-be assassins, but no defense can save the man for whose blood a whole face of flying avengers will soon be thirsting...
...simple satisfactory cure for cancer of the larynx was reported by Sir St. Clair Thomson of London, president of the Royal Society of Medicine. The one essential is an early diagnosis; the operation is a laryngo-fissure, free from danger to voice or patient. Twenty five years' experience; 70 laryngo-fissures, resulted in 34 patients still alive, 32 who lived from 3 to 19 years after the operation without recurrence of the disease...
...Rendell, who is furious with her husband for regarding her, as she thinks, beneath suspicion. The people seated on the stage suspect the languishing wife of a visiting American. When he too loudly voices his suspicions, Dot Rendell is compelled to admit that she, not Mrs. Blake, occupied the danger post in the south room. Her happy husband cheerfully goes on believing in her innocence. Only when pique has driven her to the point of desperation does he shoulder his obligation to be indignant. His wife, satisfied, then surprises some members of the audience with the information that an effective...
...upon four poles, as the Bible states, he intended to convert the thousands to his enlightened cause, not to have his chosen people converted to the cause of the thousands. Confidently he sailed to Europe with his mind stuffed full of convincing diatribes, never once considering the danger to his own well pastured sheep, safe, as he thought, in Zion City and in the confident belief in the flatness of this unbelieving world...
There is something sturdily conservative in the protest of one of Harvard's leading athletes of days gone by against the present tendency of undergraduates to take to their books. There was danger that the revolutionary idea that college was a place in which to study might actually dominate the student world. In fact, after every encounter with Yale, voices have been raised by Harvard men about the enervating effect of study on members of the team...