Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meteorological experts were called and were generally of the opinion that there was no clear danger in the storm evident to those aboard the airship. Some thought that certain inferences of possible danger might have been drawn and the course of the ship changed as a precautionary measure, but they could not be certain...
...offer of $600,000 from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Wisconsin. Without making their self-denial retroactive to previous gifts from the "lobbying" oil interests, the regents refused. Regent-Novelist Zona Gale filled a page in The Nation with their reasons, which boiled down to: the social danger of domination by wealthy donors and civic pride in the fact that Wisconsin stands fifth among state-supported universities in the size of annual appropriations, its income equaling revenue from an endowment of 20 millions...
...their misgivings, the beast has kept slowly and methodically growing. And now the time has come when man must attempt to master the civilization he has created, for it is not to be thought that he will meekly submit to the forces that would crush him, once the danger is evident...
...Great as the danger is of constructing the tutorial conference on the pattern of class instruction, there is equal risk of over-emphasizing the difference between the two. You do not overcome the defects of mere efficiency by mere inefficiency. To light a cigarette, stretch one's legs on the desk, and indulge in aimless, endless talk leads to wisdom no more than does the mechanical taking of notes or the frenzied cramming for an examination. We should watch lest the tutorial method degrade the process of learning into a form of intellectual journalism; in practice it should involve serious...
Heinen: "No, it was not possible. The piling up of evidence of the danger was so great and so varied that it would have been on this occasion impossible for me not to have seen it. ... My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as an aerologist is not changed with this flight. It is the same now as it was before, for I know that he was making his observations as closely as he possibly could. I only say here that he made a mistake in judgment because he had not quite enough experience. My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as a pilot...