Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw the line between that which is collegiate in the sense of College Human and Judge Jr., and that which is only the irrepressibility of youth is very difficult. The danger of being too sober and too sane is evenly matched by the danger of being inane and hysterical. The distinction between the decent and the indecent, however, is much easier and requires no leaf critical genius. There are actions and trivolities which are inexcusable even when done in the name of boyish press and of good clean...
Entering a Metropolitan subway car last week Henri Decharbogne, famed Paris newspaperman, member of the Legion of Honor, was bumped on the head by a closing door, killed. A great cry of protest against the danger of subway doors went up. "Metro" officials, calm, ignored it; said the doors were modeled on those in use in the U. S. for years...
...away for a 35 yard run. French went in for Crosby and carrying the ball for the first time this year put his teammates within a few yards of the opposing goal line. But here the University fumbled and an exchange of kicks put the ball out of the danger zone...
Foreign Markets. The U. S. has negotiated 72 parcel-post conventions with various foreign countries, greatly facilitating foreign trade. Mr. New called the attention of businessmen to the danger in which the last Congress placed our parcel-post convention with uba by failing to remove restrictions on U. S. imports from Cuba...
...Library. The books easily submitted to the progress of the flame, which spread through the whole building, and in a short time this venerable monument to the piety of our ancestors was reduced to a heap of ashes. The other Colleges, Stoughton Hall and Massachusetts Hall, were in the danger of sharing the same fate... But by the blessing of God upon the vigorous efforts of the assistants, the rain was confined to Harvard Hall; and there, besides the destruction of the private property of those who had chambers in it, the public loss is very great, perhaps irrespectable...