Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spots where, on the ancient maps, great monsters with fluctuating tails engulfed the early mariner, across the same areas where great storm gods with puffing cheeks emerging from the cloud in bas relief blew the chill blast of sudden death upon lost adventurers. The mystery is gone. And the danger...
...roll?in order to gain passengers at the expense of safety?is old, however. The Germans followed that line a while before the War. But the old temptation has fewer followers nowadays. With steam vessels, the foremost part of seamanship is to keep them headed into a storm. What danger then? Very little, unless the captain be drunk?or unless her driving force go bad, her propeller shaft be broken, her engines stop in their ceaseless grind. In these days of several screws and several turbines, even that danger is minimized. The leviathans may flout the sea until some day?...
Accordingly, it was bruited that France and Britain, cognizant of the danger from Bolshevism in the East and Near East, would henceforth work hand in hand in a spirit of complete understanding. It seemed likely that new divisions of the world were discussed with a view to resisting the machinations of Moscow...
Upon this European trip, Sir Hari took with him his aide-de-camp, one Captain C. W. Arthur, whose duty was to safeguard him from danger in all its forms. This position, virtually an appointment by the British Raj, calls for a man of incorruptible honor with the highest sense of duty...
...this danger, investment interests are thoroughly alive. President E. H. H. Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange has initiated a broad program of effort against stock swindling, which bears the endorsement of President Coolidge and has been promised cooperation by the Federal and State governmental authorities, as well as by bankers and stockbrokers all over the U. S. Cases of apparent security frauds, if communicated to the New York Stock Exchange, are to be turned over to governmental authorities for vigorous prosecution. It is estimated that between $250,000,000 and $1,000,000.000 is annually lost in this...