Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home Politics. To the U. S. public, China is symbolized by Confucius, Ming vases, heroic missionaries, clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...
...record book, the charter and the great seal of the university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril. Every student at Yale should be impressed with the conviction that only through...
...Westbrook Pegler: "The case of Mr. Pegler, 'that peril to placidity.' is simplest of all. Peg was bitten by an income tax while still a boy a few years...
...stuff for even a medical audience, these newsreels were, from the stand-points of both horror and history, in many respects the most remarkable ever shown. For if the utter freakishness of the new usage of fighting wars in town instead of in the country has vastly increased the peril of noncombatants, it has at the same time advanced the efficiency of news coverage of the hostilities a hundredfold. For instance: on the afternoon of Aug. 14, three Chinese bombers flew over Shanghai's Bund, accidentally or intentionally slipped two bombs out of their bomb-racks and blew...
...that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents . . . in retiring . . . after their second term . . . has become by common concurrence a part of our republican system of Government and that any departures . . . would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril...