Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records, against a back-ground of Army life in Cuba, the defeat and heartbreak experienced in 1900 by General Leonard Wood (Jonathan Hale), Major William Crawford Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that the disease was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito, was something that a Havana physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, had been saying in vain for 19 years. And it stamps as matter-of-fact, unassuming heroes the young doctor...
Meanwhile the Russian Bear has awakened to the Yellow Peril and massed defences along the Manchurian border. In addition to "Siberia's life-line," double tracked railway across the barrens, a second road has been constructed 200 miles further from the border. The Russian army has 400,000 men in the East, as well as 1500 planes within flying distance of Japan's industrial cities. Caches of Munitions and food are also ready for the Soviets...
Several months ago Soviet papers factually reported such a misfortune as Arctic scientists constantly risk in their perilous lives: unpredictably heavy ice at the beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept...
...right to live and participate in the increased efficiency of industry and the bounties of our national resources. It is time for labor to recognize the right of capital to have a reasonable return upon its investment. It is time for statesmen to recognize their nation's peril and to decide to cooperate with labor and industry. . . . Labor is willing to co-operate-now. Let the leaders of the nation's business step forward. Let the statesmen of the nation do the same. Let the council of reason and mutual toleration be convened...
...Japanese net tightened some of the soldiers went nearly crazy with fear. I saw one suddenly seize a bicycle and dash madly in the direction of the advancing Japanese vanguard, then only a few hundred yards distant. When a pedestrian warned him of his peril he turned swiftly about and dashed in the opposite direction. Suddenly he leaped from his bicycle and threw himself at a civilian and when I last saw him he was trying to rip the clothes from the man's back, at the same time shedding his own uniform...