Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...storm-tossed economic ship. Last summer the Department of Commerce estimated that foreigners had $1,200,000,000 deposited in U. S. banks and invested in short term securities, had $2,951,000,000 in U. S. stocks and bonds. Economists have long been alive to the danger to U. S. securities markets if the tempestuous lashings of unruly European currencies should send these cannon balls crashing back to Europe...
...before announcement of the franc's devaluation, attention was called to this danger when Secretary Morgenthau made public a political letter he had received from Senator Arthur Vandenberg who wrote: "If we have anything like $4.000,000,000 on instant foreign call, our financial structure and our price structure rest to a considerable extent on foreign judgment or caprice...
This year the second method is being employed. Every effort is being made to keep the urchins from nefarious practices by showing them that they will be in no physical danger provided that they keep away from the equipment during practice. After practice the managers hope to handle them...
Most obvious of the implications of having "a major subject" will be increased specialization. The new plan has, of course, certain limitations. A student's liberty of choice is curtailed. Then, too, a college which demands the selection of a "major" or "field of concentration" runs the constant danger of becoming vocational and narrow in its highly departmentalized intellectual outlook...
...cope with this, where there are low readings, the operation is postponed until by rest and the use of digitalis the patient's vasotone is raised beyond the danger point. When the readings are low, but immediate surgery is imperative the surgeon must expect trouble, employ speed, spare trauma and select the less severe operative procedure, such as draining an organ rather than removing...