Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this much. I don't consider that I have been doing stunt flying. I regard my flights as carefully calculated, ordinary ventures that have a minimum of danger...
...possible to present such a story pictorially without loss of its beauty and danger of controversy when the lapse of years has made it history, but for himself Sir Austen feels it is more beautiful in memory than any picture could make it. He must frankly say that he feels the strongest repugnance to its cinema production...
...rooms were hotbeds of rubbish. Total damage was estimated at $20,000,000. " Strangely enough, no one was killed; only a few suffered serious injuries. But 3,000 people were thrown out of work in a city of 150,000 population where wages had already been cut to the danger point (see p. 35). Fall River started building itself up again: There was prospect of more work. The whistles of 29 locomotives were screaming one afternoon last week. Their cords had been caught in the fallen timbers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s roundhouse and shops of Connellsville...
...Benito announced the incorporation of the Fascist Militia as an "independent unit" in the Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...
...been through a CRIMSON competition himself and watched many others do likewise it is evident that there are certain regular stages which practically all candidates pass through First there is the stage of discouragement, what might properly be termed the 'danger stage.' It usually comes after the first few days; the candidate has worked hard with small success, he is jostled and croweded by other candidates who always seem to have some unwonted advantage over him. It is during this period that most candidates drop out; those who persist despite its disappointments seldom fall to achieve their goal. Then...