Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that the University officials have been worried about the extreme peril which forces the poor student to dodge through the rushing autos on his way to the New Lecture Hall, and so with the co-operation of the State Highway Commission they have begun a survey to determine the exact number of cars and pedestrians frequenting the maze of highways converging at the Fire Station...
Bubonic plague is called the Black Death because its victims become a spotted dusky red. The disease compares with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...
Yale's President Angell: "Brave leader of your people in a time of peril, with indomitable courage and good cheer . . . you have brought high intelligence and complete devotion to the service of the nation...
...snakelike route of 2,000 miles from Teheran to Ankara (see map) was itself a gigantic achievement of the two Dictators. Before they ousted the do-nothing hereditary royal dynasties of Turkey and Persia such a journey could only be made by meandering caravan and in utmost peril of attack by bandits. Most savage of all were the Kurdish cutthroats who for generations had defied both Persian and Turkish soldiers, raiding (first into one country, then into the other along their common frontier. Perhaps the wisest and most enlightened act of the King of Kings was to conclude two years...
What Belgium most fears is that Leopold III, a passionate devotee of mountain climbing like his father who climbed once too often, will continue to persist in this risky royal sport, thus keeping the realm in peril of another accident which might leave the Belgians stranded with a three-year-old King Baudoin...