Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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True, "M'sieu Jean" (their name for onetime Louisiana Governor John M. Parker, now directing flood relief) had given danger warnings, had urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True...
...Lives. Despite the Acadians indifference to their danger, however, only ten lives are definitely known to have been lost in Louisiana, though rumor has listed the dead at more than 100. Nine of the dead belonged to one family, a widowed woman and her eight children. Caught as the flood entered Plaucheville, the Widow Dupré fled with her children to the second story of her home. The water poured into the house, reached the second story, continued to rise. A rescue boat found the entire family huddled together, drowned...
Anti-vivisectionists argued that the moral danger to man from experimenting on animals in laboratories was greater than any medical danger that vivisection might avert...
...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
...most important suggestion, has admitted an open question and possible need for action in regard to the second in importance, and has turned down the one which remedied the lesser evil and which gave fewest indications of a practical improvement. Every revolutionary plan can stand some modification, the danger always being that the modifying process completely devitalize the original. The result in this case still retains much of its former power along with a few valuable additions...