Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen observation trains. Easily as one may abuse the superlative degree, I am surely within the limits of moderation in saying that the unanimity and unreservedness of the praise bestowed by the newspaper press, for three successive seasons, on the New London managers...
...Seniors and Sophomores; the Freshmen were last to appear, having been detained by a slight accident at the Boat House. Owing to some mistake, the railroad drawbridge was not open, and after repeated attempts to have it opened, the crews were obliged to shoot under it, at imminent peril to their boats, on account of the high tide...