Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge learned of the stock market uneasiness and promptly expressed his belief that the brokers' loans constituted no real danger to the country's credit situation. Next day the market steadied itself and continued steady on following days. Average prices rose...
...opinion of Charles Durham, restorer of works of art, who is associated with the new Fogg Art Museum, the many paintings of John Singer Sargent which now belong to Harvard and in fact the very large majority of all his works are in little danger of the early disintegration promised them according to D. V. Thompson Jr. '22, Instructor in Art at Yale...
...starter" and give both possible future donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. gifts made conditional to the raising of further donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. Gifts made conditional to the raising of further funds also guard the donor against the danger, proved in the past to be very real, of having his money spent on a basement or foundation, the rest of the building being dependent upon pledged funds which often fail to appear...
...carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger to the machine over which it is revolved. For Professor Packard's work, however, the most interesting tricks which the telegraphone can accomplish are its powers of endless reproduction and at the same time, when required, lack of permanence. Thus a student steps to the transmitter, speaks a few words and then...
...development of football," said Major John L. Griffln at the annual banquet of the association arguing from the increase in college population and the abundance of money. And he went on to assert that "even if football were not fun, it would be worthwhile as a check on the danger of the growth of America becoming weak and fiabby...