Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broke loose from its moorings and began to roll from side to side, flirting with the edge of destruction. At last, Representative James H. MacLafferty of California rose and interposed: "Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I wish to state to him that he is in imminent danger of losing his chewing...
...meeting of Johns Hopkins Alumni, Newton D. Baker (Johns Hopkins 1892) said: "There is also a danger in the massing of mere numbers. Why, I saw just the other day the plans, the uncompleted plans, for a university that in 30 years is to have 60,000 students. Think of it! Sixty thousand students! I sincerely hope that Johns Hopkins will never have nearly that number of students...
...guess might even be hazarded that the decision will effect some change. For when a question becomes sufficiently important to be referred to a committee the status quo automatically becomes in danger of change, for better or worse...
...almost ready for its flight from Friedrichshafen, South Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J. The directors of the Zeppelin company foresee success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...
...complexities of the plot and the difficulty of producing harmony between the setting of Janet, the Broadway actress, and that of Don John, the dissolute old Spaniard, promise to be so exacting that there is little danger, according to Coach Silvers, of over training the actors...