Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danger that a well propagandized new Calif would become the focus of troublesome "holy wars" might well cause the following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...
...from the south to the north. Why magnificent southern cities like Copan in Northern Honduras and Tikal in Guatemala were abandoned is still a riddle. The exodus from them about 600 A. D. may have been caused by exhaustion of the soil or by epidemic or by some other danger yet unproved. But there seems no doubt that the Mayas did migrate gradually northward and that their cities in Northern Yucatan were the last ones they built...
...great danger involved in a general or sympathetic strike is the possibility that the original grievances which are the primary causes of the strike, and which are, in this case, meritoricus, may be lost sight of because of the charge that the general strike is a challenge to Government and to the existence of Government...
ODTAA?John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). The tumultuous imagination of John Masefield, rather than fling itself upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There...
Unfortunately this is a difficulty which besets all too many educational functions. The frailty of human nature is a well-recognized failing, and any committee is liable to the grossest sort of error. But to see too great a danger in this instance in face of the repeated assurance on the part of the Committee on Admission that each applicant will be considered on his individual merits, is perhaps exaggerating pessimism...