Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This departure from isolation is undoubtedly one of the most encouraging developments of the last generation. It means that the country is at last abandoning the blissful dream that it can ignore the danger of another major war. Keeping itself at peace through the efforts of imaginative senators and through a great popular fear of war. It means that America is beginning to serve the cause of her own peace and security in the only practical way possible by cooperating in the interest of international law and order...
...Anson Phelps Stokes, to which believers of all faiths were invited. Such a service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Oxford Conference last summer, with the stipulation that it did not set a precedent. To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger. To them this celebration is no mere Lord's Supper or fellowship meal; it is a sacrificial act performed by a priest of the historic ministry, or even (depending on their inclinations toward Catholicism) a repetition of the sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross...
...seems evident that we are in danger of reaching the condition already so acute on the continent of Europe, where the problem of unemployment in the learned professions demands attention. . . . It seems to me highly probable that a diminution in the total number of students in the universities of this country is desirable...
...note of warning, however, Dr. Russell pointed out that until preventive steps are taken the world over, every community is in danger of having disease brought into its midst by travellers and tourists, and can never afford to relax its vigilance...
This fact, plus droughts and increasing mechanization of agriculture, he continued, means that the pinch is now being felt among many farm groups, an example being some 300 sharecropping families in Lee County, Texas who "are literally in danger of starvation as every penny of their share of the cotton crop has been required to pay their debts to the land-lords." Ordinarily, said Secretary Wallace, the landlords would carry the sharecroppers until next summer, but because of low cotton prices the landlords are almost as badly off themselves. "Local agencies, likewise, are utterly unable to provide any kind...