Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing grounds. With underground cables, however, the situation is entirely different. In the first place, it is not permissible to carry high-voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable is insulated with paper tapes which are thoroughly dried, and then impregnated with insulating oils. This paper insulation is then surrounded with a lead sheath. Such cables behave most erratically. They may be tested...
...that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from a new angle, felt that "the jury system makes law the instrument of man, not man the instrument of law"; whereupon McBride announced that "there is no danger of tyranny today". H. A. Wolff '29, summing up, pleaded that changes might be advisable, but not complete abolishment...
...Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This is a clear run of nearly four miles without danger to pedestrians who are fenced out of the drive. The Boston-Brookline traffic, it is believed, would be in part deflected from Beacon St, and Commonwealth Ave, to the new drive under the Harvard Bridge arches and thus the present congestion of Boston-Cambridge traffic on Massachusetts Ave would...
...country chronically torn by civil war, the populace is the eventual loser thru the wholesale destruction of property and the gain to law and order through a speedy settling of the strife is certainly of primary importance to the United States as well, with its large commercial interest in danger...
...will bear some watching. The quieting influence of religion should prevent any strenuous demonstration, but mankind can rest assured that, having gotten into Congress, the weaker sex cannot be kept from the pulpit. If precedent means anything, a definite attempt to deny this right always carries with it the danger of a well wrapped brick being hurled through priceless stained glass...