Word: perillous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Older, more settled than his younger brothers his ideals may find their realities in things of a far different nature. Where they are, they are his to choose. Between and sealing wax the difference is largely one of option, and whichever words the satisfaction is acceptable, without comment or peril, to the individual temperament, and in this case individual temperament is the ultimate criterion...
...complacent boasting of 100 per cent Americanism as "questionable" and "a begging of the question," because it "assumes that one is serving America best who holds strictly to a policy of isolation." He urged the country to "recognize the fact that the world is one world and what ever peril may menace a part of it vitally effects the whole...
...intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition to such a philosophy? There is no war here between political, or religious, or economic conservatism and radicalism. The dust raising activities of the Red Peril Chaser cannot obscure the issue. The choice is simple. Are the school and college to train educated men or obscurantists...
Standards. "The single standard and the examinations [by all state medical boards] under it would make it necessary for all practitioners to have at least some education in biology, anatomy physiology, hygiene and diagnosis. This would reduce the peril to life of wrong diagnosis, with consequent wrong treatment, sometimes ending in death.?Dr. Willard C. Rappleye, New Haven...
...President can, by a stroke of the pen, capture every broadcasting station in the land. His signature must be appended to a proclamation that "there exists a war or a threat of a war or a state of public peril or other national emergency." (A Fundamentalist President could conceivably consider a decline in church-membership public peril...