Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wider than our own, would be the first of a liberal education," writes Mr. John Erskine in the current New Republic. This definition is sound enough, and Mr. Erskine's contention that the college curriculum is over-crowded with courses on second-rate subjects also points to a danger in modern education. His solution of the problem is to cut the curriculum down to a study of a few great men of all ages...
...preventers largely centers, because she condemns the practice and bars from the sacraments those, who deign to frustrate the natural law of procreation by artificial means." Mr. Goldstein repudiated the notion that the Catholic Church advocates "an avalanche of babies under any circumstances." When the mother's health, the danger of the loss of life, extreme poverty, or any other legitimate reason exists for limiting the birth rate, it is held to be moral for husband and wife by mutual consent to practice continence, but never is it held to be morally proper to regulate the birth rate by unnatural...
...else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor. The professor shouted: "Keep your mouth open." Vapor began to issue in immense, frothy clouds from this orifice. Sceptic Phillips recovered...
They are to race for the honor of their nations and the finest prize that the world offers. But ahead lies all the danger of the North and the terror of living burial in an unmarked frozen grave. They go to seek a land of vision, a continent that no one has yet beheld, peopled possibly, with an unknown race and covered with a strange vegetation...
During times of public danger, or when delicate matters are to be put through with some finesse, this mellow inconclusiveness may perhaps be justified, but Mr. Coolidge has majorities supporting him in both houses of Congress, and so does not need to rely on anonymity. The danger of these ambushed soundings of public opinion comes in making the President subject to every caprice of popular enthusiasm. The prepared statements issued by Presidents prior to Harding told the public just what the President intended to do without leaving him a loophole of escape when he advocated unpopular policies...