Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present canal to airplane attack. Army engineers begged to differ, with everybody, grouchily suggested that the talk of a Nicaragua canal was plain politics. They pointed out that a canal through Nicaragua would have to penetrate the mountain backbone of that country where it would be exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much as a new lock in Panama, and that the Panama Canal could carry twice as much traffic. A new canal, they added, would only make one more vulnerable spot to fortify and protect in case...
...will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer of 1924 must indeed have been a revelation to the members of the troupe and according to all reports were that and more to the unfortunate chaperones of the party...
...fault of the Cantonese authorities, but that on the contrary the Cantonese have made every effort to prevent them. After all, when machine guns are in readiness at a Chicago election, it is not surprising that men caught in the midst of a Chinese civil war should run unpreventable danger. And yet it looks now as though thousands of our troops will risk their lives to revenge the deaths of hot over a dozen of their countrymen...
...department progressed, it was decided to add the general History examination. As a result there was no longer any danger of a student's restricting himself to too narrow a field, as this general examination required him to have covered the subject as a whole...
...tuition fee, and where the average fee is well over that the school sets as a standard. Objection to this scheme on the grounds of its setting up artificial distinction between students would hardly be borne out by experience at Kent--and in a school of 250, such danger would be greater than in a college of 3000. But there is a very valid objection in that the personal touch necessary between school and parent would be largely lacking at college. Some might regard it, too, as a move toward socialism--a tax on wealth...