Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal in argument. His was what his friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made his audience bellow with amusement, yet his address was delivered in a tragic spirit. To Al Smith, the Democracy was in danger, and Al Smith was sounding the alarm...
Intercollegiate football is in iminent danger of being dropped from the athletic programs of the better colleges, in the opinion of Walter R. Okeson, chairman of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee and a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...considered opinion that football is in real danger today from its friends or rather these who claim to be its friends," says Mr. Okeson. "Financial competition for schoolboys athletes brings evils in its train which more than offset whatever good there may be in furnishing a college education to those men who really desire it and are ambitious enough to acquire and use it. Excessive drinking at games, gambling, and rowdy exhibitions by spectators all furnish ammunition to those who are opposed to football...
...caused by the fact that the skis would dig themselves farther and farther into the ground when the plane was in horizontal position, as on the take-off. Soon it was found that a cord attached to the wing struts raising the front of the ski removed the danger of burying. A stop cable also was fastened on to the rear of the ski leading to the main plane bracing. These two improvements kept the ski in correct position for maneuvering on the ground or for the take...
...moral lesson the Dostoievsky classic teaches is limited in its application. If shows how a brilliantly intellectual man with nerves breaks down under the weight on his conscience of a murder he has committed and for which an innocent man is in danger of being executed. If it had general application, if it depicted the mental process of all murderers, we would have no unsolved murders. We must presume the perpetrators of the unsolved crimes have neither consciences nor nerves, thus the "Crime and Punishment" theme cannot apply to them...