Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When danger was such as required a long fast "hop," or straight run at maximum speed, the fish flew near the surface with its body bent downward in a curve from its midsection so that the tail touched the water occasionally, giving it accelerating bursts of speed. The wings move so as to make splash-points with the down-curved tips, at intervals resembling a column of colons exactly as described by Geologist Troxell. This flight ended in a glide with tail touching in a swimming motion several yards before the fish plopped down and submerged. In landing from...
...there exists a danger or preoccupation of war, it is useless to attempt to have the States disarm or reduce the armaments; if there exist grave injustices in the solution of problems of international affairs and no peaceful method is seen to make them disappear, it is useless to dissuade the victims thereof to cause justice to be respected by force, if they have it; if the nations by virtue of their own excesses or because they are exposed to the mistakes of others, must defend their economy and their financial balance, and deem it necessary...
Reason why the Church puts its trust in the Rightists: "The Church, in danger of perishing totally at the hands of Communism . . . feels herself protected by a power which until now has guaranteed the fundamental principles of all society. . . . We affirm that the war has not been undertaken to build up an autocratic state over a humiliated nation, but simply that the national spirit should arise with the strength and the Christian liberty of older times...
...were faced by the hard fact that they may be ousted if Japan wins, as U. S. oil interests were ousted four years ago from Manchuria. U. S. investments in China total $200,000,000. In shattered Shanghai U. S. investments totaling a major chunk of this were in danger of going down the drain. Sample: the $57,000,000 Shanghai Power Co., subsidiary of American & Foreign Power...
Omaha last week postponed the opening of school one week on account of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, and planned further weekly postponements until frost ends the season of danger. Meanwhile Omaha children may not go to Sunday school, theatres, parks or swimming pools. Omaha has not a single mechanical respirator similar to that in which Frederick Snite was transported from Peiping to Chicago (TIME, June 14), and every Omaha child whose chest was paralyzed this summer has died in spite of efforts by Omaha's fire department's inhalator squad...