Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial began with an unsuccessful attempt by the defense to prove the incompetency of the court. It was urged that the country was not legally under martial law, it being unconstitutional to keep it in a state of siege when there was no danger of foreign invasion, and that, therefore, the trial should go to a civil court before a jury. M. Carapancea, military prosecuting attorney, pleaded the contrary case, and the court came to the conclusion that the government was within its rights in declaring martial...
...individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they are in danger of surrendering to the psychoanalyst that vast field of human need where the con fession of sin and spiritual misery is met with sympathetic and intelligent treatment...
...this irrigation system the Egyptians have seen a grave danger to their water supply, although the British have repeatedly proved that control of water in the drought seasons by no means meant a diminution of the supply. In the new dam project the Egyptians are therefore likely to see a further threat to their riparian agricultural interests...
Blanchard said that the City of Cambridge has given its official sanction to a Washington Eim memorial, and has placed a tablet marking the spot where the tree stood. "There is a real danger," Blanchard stated to a CRIMSON representative, "of losing our Washington traditions in Cambridge by a failure to erect a suitable memorial. There seems to be a tendency to destroy the traditions and the reputations of our national heroes. The Washington Elm is a tradition of which Cambridge should be proud, and which cannot easily be relinquished...
...Children. Dr. Alfred Adler, friend and old pupil of Dr. Sigmund Freud,* wrote from Vienna that the spoiled child, the unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...