Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the morning meeting Arthur A. Holecombe '06, Professor of Government, will discuss "The Danger of War Abroad," with special reference to Asia. In the afternoon session the general subject of discussion will be "What Foreign Policy should the United States Adopt to Keep...
...Instigation of foreign wars. The League spreads propaganda designed to lead to war. In this category come war scare stories of the Japanese danger which may soon end civilization...
...Italian advance guard. Early next morning came a radio message from Marshal Badoglio, bogged down miles back in the middle of his motorized column: The occupation of Addis Ababa must take place at once, regardless of squabbles over the exact order of precedence, because foreigners' lives were in danger following the flight of Haile Selassie...
...Ashford, steaming into New York Harbor last week, watched U. S. Public Health physicians scrutinize passengers' wrists for early signs of smallpox. Lord Horder was amused. Said he: "They look at wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute diseases have almost died...
Even without that endorsement, there was no danger that Education Before Verdun would lack readers, but whether it. too, would take its place among modern classics was more dubious. The third of Author Zweig's tetralogy-in-progress (Young Woman of 1914, Education Before Verdun, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, The Crowning of a King-the last yet to appear), but the second in his time scheme, Education Before Verdun seeks to repeat Sergeant Grischa's case in terms of the Western Front. Perhaps because its inhumanly terrible story is not so concentrated, the sympathy it arouses...