Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...
...described to the press as "sinus trouble." The young man did have infected sinuses, and he was in the capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs might destroy the red cells in his blood. In such a situation, a rich and robust Harvard crewman is no safer from death than anybody else...
...until last week, when his mother and his fiancee, Ethel du Pont, went home, was Franklin Jr. out of danger and fit for Dr. Tobey to operate on his infected right antrum (in the cheek) and ethmoid sinuses (in the brow). Simultaneously, Dr. Tobey let it be known that his notable young patient had been pulled through his crisis by a notable new drug...
...regulations, set up to protect the security buyer by making it easier to get all the facts needed in studying values. But as far as I know there are no laws to protect buyers from speculating on a hit-or-miss basis, and that's where potential danger lies...
...same period Connecticut had been illegally organized, although the colonists believed they had a valid charter. It, too, was in danger of the King's vengeance when Charles returned to the throne. Diplomatic Governor Winthrop of Connecticut organized a demonstration of loyalty to the King, then rushed to London, gained membership in the Royal Society through his scientific interests, borrowed ?500 on Connecticut's produce to finance his wire-pulling, actively cultivated English gentlemen who had no compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship...