Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1913 the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been studying the effects of different diets. Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson were particularly good subjects because during Arctic adventures Stefans son lived about seven years on meat alone, while Anderson ate nothing else for over a year. There was no danger of the imaginary headaches or indigestion that might beset beef-eating beginners. Both men lost a little weight at the start and then trained back to the pink...
...York Stock Exchange in a state of complete collapse. A petition circulated among members for a three day holiday, Good Friday, the intervening Saturday and Easter Monday, appeared to find more brokers fascinated by the profits of 4,000,000 share sessions than worried by the danger of physical ruin. Every "record" of any shape or description was broken and rebroken...
...class of 1931, Professor Perry outlines an opportunity for serious study of contemporary civilization in the light of a scientific rationality, a method originating with Rousseau and now applied by Dr. Meiklejohn in his experimental college at Wisconsin. And the danger that such broadness should prove superficial or produce a vaguely theoretic sentimentality should be effectively removed by the requirement of a thesis and individual research in a chosen aspect of the work. The Field of Sociology and Social Ethics, thus reorganized and widened, is a welcome and worthy mate of the present fields, and takes its legitimate place...
...being revived with success. Ibsen's frankness no longer causes sensitive theatre-goers to shudder, for he has long since been surpassed in that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced by this glant degenerated to vulgarity, but not before Hauptmann, Shaw, and Strindberg...
Before the Civil War, says Ritchie, "the struggle of the States was for State supremacy over Federal power in the Federal domain. Now it is for State existence against Federal transgression in the State domain." There is no longer any danger of State supremacy, but there is a very real danger of State suffocation...