Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interbreeding, raised his head alertly at Japan's announcement, last spring, that though she had withdrawn from the League of Nations, she had no idea of relinquishing her League-given mandate over the Marianne, Caroline, Palau, Yap and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant...
...regular class officers are elected, along with the officers of the upper classes, in January or thereabouts. Incidentally, it may be well to remark that the offices of the Sophomore and Junior classes are momentarily in peril of being abolished. The Freshman class officers have a number of duties to perform in connection with the Jubilee and so forth, but those of the other classes hold positions which are almost solely honorary. With the coming of the House Plan, class spirit inevitably tends to die out and upperclassmen naturally feel that their first allegiance is to their House. So also...
Eager to adjourn, the House virtually ignored two soldierly British textile champions. "The yellow peril is now upon us in a far more insidious form than war!" cried Lieut.-Commander Frederick W. Astbury. "Unless the Government can take immediate action every calico print ing plant in Lancashire will be closed within five years...
...French Press echoed approval. A Foreign Office spokesman announced: "Yesterday, Germany was regarded as a peril. Dare anyone suppose today that it is France and her allies who are troubling peace...
...Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow Peril...