Word: perils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...loss or disablement or the extinction of business opportunities for other people, that is not a sufficient reason for denouncing such combinations or denying their right to be. But then, again, this is not the whole of the case. That great aggregations of capital have in them elements of peril there can be no doubt. As President Hadley has said. "The true medical treatment in the body politic as in the human body, is the physiological one to create a public spirit and a public sentiment which shall be adequate to deal with the new conditions...
...fifth lecture given by M. de Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language...