Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice in the last fortnight I found myself in mortal danger. This is the story. I am an Australian. In my country I have played four types of football. Naturally enough I wanted to see the American variety, so I hied me to the Stadium to see the Harvard squad romp over Amherst and Brown...
...places the 51-year-old fire has pierced above ground, burning buildings, destroying valuable timber, causing some deaths. Property values in the towns of New Straitsville and Shawnee and environs have dropped because of smoke and noxious gases. Roadways have sunk as much as five feet and at danger points signs warn motorists to proceed at their own risk. Miners in nearby active workings have been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide seeping through from the fiery shafts. Occupants of twelve houses" near New Straitsville were evacuated when the foundations buckled. The town's $80,000 schoolhouse is considered in danger...
...book have also a story, a history. How much of that could be told? How much do we writers dare let ourselves go in the making of portraits? How close can we keep to truth? How much do we dare try to be true historians? . . . And then, too, another danger, always the danger of the historian's imagination also thrusting in. Who has not asked himself the question: 'Do I know my own wife, my brother, father, son, friend?' Moments of intense loneliness, known to all people...
...commander was a sturdy, dark-haired, 45-year-old Topeka, Kans. corporation lawyer named Harry Walter Colmery, who, like Topeka's Alf Landon, is a Pennsylvania-born Republican. A Wartime aviator who has made the Legion his prime avocation, Commander Colmery declared last week:"Our danger lies in our own apathy, coupled with the fact that we have a tendency now and then to stick our nose into other people's business instead of keeping within the confines of the Legion's program." Definitely part of the Legion's program, however, reiterated the new commander...
...excited timbre of Secretary Morgenthau's voice when he first spoke there was perhaps a hint of suspicion of this sort, but most U. S. Treasury officials soon calmed down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European economists had guessed-not knowing of the super-secret parleys-that once the franc sank the British would sink their pound even lower to retain .its competitive advantage...