Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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North American Review--"The Yellow Peril,' Japan's Golden Opportunity," by K. Kaneko...
...been called a fight between Christian and Pagan; it is not a crusade, but a struggle in defence of the national honor of Japan, on which the term "yellow peril" has no bearing...
Popular--"The Peril of Horace Dunn," by W. A. Foster...
...gladly welcome here today a worthy representative of German greatness, worthy in station, profession and character. We see in him, however, something more than the representative of a superb nationality and an imperial ruler. Universities have long memories. Forty years ago the American Union was in deadly peril, and thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson...
...federal taxation is yet more unjust, for there we tax a man's needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns, but it cannot lay hand upon wealth and make it pay its share of the expenses of government...