Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerome '38 and Morris G. Manker '38, who suffered fractured skulls when the car which Manker was driving crashed into a repair truck on Massachusetts Avenue near Cambridge Common early yesterday morning, have been under treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital through the night. Jerome has been on the danger list since three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Manker's condition is reported as fair...
...proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
...DANGER IS MY BUSINESS - John D. Craig-Simon & Schuster...
What makes an adventurer? Though hundreds of adventurers have lived to tell the tale, few have attempted an answer to the question. In Danger Is My Business, Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood's best-known deep-sea photographer, who will photograph the salvage work on the Lusitania this summer, starts his autobiography by pondering himself and his kind. An adventurer's courage, says Craig, "is simply something that keeps logic from working ... it is something-like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers-which some men have and others do not. . . ." Despite this analytical beginning, Danger...
...author shows good grasp of the essential problems and the premises from which the techniques of "popular enlightenment" are derived. He correctly "perceives in the exercise of political power the operation of psychological quite as much as physical influences." What he does not always perceive, however, is the danger of a rationalist orientation turning categorical...