Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imminent peril for France and indirectly for all democracies was forecast by William L. Langer '15, professor of History, in a talk in the Union Common Room last night...
...driver's license (TIME. Sept. 14) had been vainly trying to follow the speeches by reading advance press copies stuffed under his coat. When his turn came he jumped up. scooted to the front of the platform, croaked: "I have heard a great deal of talk about the peril to our institutions and the peril to freedom in our modern world today. From what I know of the lessons of history, our institutions and our freedom are not in peril today. . . . What I have learned from history is that very few human institutions are killed while they are still...
...people and the assistance promised eight months ago, when 50 nations asserted that aggression had been committed in violation of international treaties. . . . "It is my duty here to inform the Governments assembled at Geneva-responsible as they are for the lives of men, women and children-of the deadly peril which threatens them by describing to them the fate which has been suffered by Ethiopia...
...cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful...
This is a time of peril for the Universities of the world--liberty is the life blood of those who are in quest of truth...