Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story goes on say the rioters braced up at this point and it seemed as though the play might go on when, "out from the boxes suddenly flew a volley of lemons. The players in danger ducked opportunely and the missals either flattened themselves against the wings or rolled harmlessly alone the floor of the stage...
...South, which made so eminent a contribution to the art of living during her middle century heyday, has been facing an increased danger of sectional crudity incidental to her great industrial and agricultural progress. In the halcyon days of the pre-civil war period southern plantations were everywhere famous as centers of cultured, cavalier life. Remote traces of this somehow managed to survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx...
...close proximity of this district to the American border, Washington officials fear that the move may mean the establishment of a naval base and perhaps a Japanese colony. Twenty-five years ago the Senate blocked a similar project on the ground that it would be a source of danger to the safety of the United States. Consequently the Foreign Relations Committee is prepared to take active measures to frustrate the possibility of such a recurrence...
...provision in the ruling is susceptible to discrimination against undesirable candidates. That is its intention. If non-assimilable elements in the college tend to choke the freedom of the rest their numbers should be reduced. Commuting students are an example of this class, racial groups another. There is a danger inherent in the plan, however. Harvard's most precious quality is her heterogeneity. The balance of elements must be maintained, but an untoward restriction of any given group would be as disastrous, more disastrous even, than no restriction at all. There is no atmosphere more enervating than that...
...Philippines to study certain mildews which were most destructive to the corn and sugar cane crops of these islands. At this time very little was known of these parasites, and although the people of the Philippines were not particularly excited about it, the Department of Agriculture realized the danger of the disease being imported into the American corn belt and thereby destroying a crop which yields an annual revenue of two or three billion dollars. I therefore spent two years studying the disease in its native haunts, so to speak, and was able to clear up many of the obscure...