Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany's offer of security. He made it clear that Britain never would undertake to do more than guarantee the Franco-German frontier against unprovoked aggression. He was moreover alleged to have said that, by taking Germany into a five-power Treaty (Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany) the danger of encouraging the latter to form a Russo-German bloc against an Anglo-French bloc would be ended-a clear policy of isolating Russia...
...chapel has been definitely established. It is also both fitting and desirable that the bravery and the high idealism of those who gave their lives to the service of the country be not unhonored. But in a doubtful joining of the two purposes, there is a danger that though the first may be achieved, the clear individuality of the second may become unhappily clouded...
...kept from choosing at random seventeen courses out of the three hundred or more offered at Harvard is to be protected against the very real danger of having a Freshman's knowledge about many things but not a Senior's knowledge about anything. That is so generally realized that there is little need to argue the advantages of having at least one third of one's courses constitute a kind of picture, the details of which lend meaning to each other and the whole of which is somehow or other much greater than the mere sum of the courses...
...distance from the front--throughout the war, "our university was a very dreary place. There were very few students for most of our men had gone to the front. We were frequently bombarded from the air as well as directly from the German lines. There was always a constant danger of attack,--a danger which was unfortunately increased by the presence of a French aviation camp just outside the town...
...Cathedral, and, of course, the Leaning Tower are the things to see. I should like to get some motion pictures of them. On a recent visit to the Leaning Tower, reported to be on the verge of toppling over, I asked the old guard if there was any danger. 'Oh no, sir,' he said, 'this tower has been here for eight centuries...