Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned"; said the operation involved no "serious" pain or "substantial" danger. Concerning "discrimination," the Supreme Court said that the law could not be criticized for failing to reach all defectives when it was seeking to include them "so far and so fast" as its means allowed. Fifteen other* have laws similar to the Virginia statute. Supreme Court decisions go into effect...
...over before Congress could assemble and make appropriations. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi invited the President to visit the flooded area. The President declined, listening instead to a report by Secretary Hoover, who returned to Washington. From New Orleans came reports that business was as usual, that the danger to the city had been exaggerated by a Nationwide, sensation-seeking press. Newspapers were accused of having published pictures of New Orleans streets, flooded by rain, of labeling these pictures as "Mississippi flood scenes." Nevertheless, citizens of New Orleans waited tensely as the flood crest, slow as a snail but powerful...
...national director of rural work for the Episcopal Church, told the Illinois men that this was the condition of all the U. S.: "The great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger in this aspect of modern religion as there is in the problem of tenant farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into the city." He recommended: "A sort...
...surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these three letters unofficial meanings have been fitted without number: "Save Our Ship," "Send Out Ships," "Save Our Souls," "Sink Or Swim...
...largely attended. "Colonel Fiske," rapped Edwin W. Thorn, Parisian Legion official, "has made statements both absolutely and profoundly ridiculous, if he has been correctly quoted. . . The public water supply of Paris is one of the purest in the world. . . There is no more need for inoculation, and no more danger of ptomaine poison in Paris than at home...