Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking at the Colgate centennial, well expressed the peril...
...British Dominions contributed two outstanding figures in Hughes of Australia, and Borden of Canada. Premier Hughes, by means of his keen appreciation of the German menace in all its manifold phases, helped to sound more loudly everywhere the warning that civilization was in peril. Borden, grimly perservering in the single-minded purpose of winning the war, inspired the Empire with a deeper consecration to war duty. No statesman any where faced and mastered problems of greater complexity, and none held more consistently to the courage adopted in the very first moment of peril or caried through to more comprehensive realization...
...claim they have a machine to end the war in a month or so. The story is put on the front page with a long if not prominent list of men who are backing the invention. We can all remember the famous discovery that was to end the submarine peril in a few months, but the average is as high as ever. Other miraculous war-enders have been announced since, and now we have an aerial torpedo which will level Berlin in the winking of an eye. If this is true, all the German spies have a fine opportunity...
...awakened us from our dream. The fascination of German efficiency and German philosophy no longer enthralls us. The peril that we in time, with other nations, might have been wholly "kulturized" is averted. This is one great service that the war has done the world. The Australian soldier realized it, and so felt justified as he fought his last hard battle to the end. --Chicago Evening Post
...make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated to sober the most heedless; and the accompanying reflection that it is for them in their security to do something at least approximating in value what many of their contemporaries are doing at the peril of their lives must provide an unaccustomed spur for the daily task. The pity would be if there were no response to it. --Alumni Ballctin...