Word: perils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberalization of the church's attitude on divorce, sanctioning as grounds for divorce not only adultery but any other "vicious conditions" of "mental or physical peril...
...question of the Government's deciding comes into this matter?England is in deadly peril, I repeat! The British Lion right now is like a toothless...
...When the zombies grope their way toward their master, who is in peril...
...left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which was believed the greater peril to the republic: Russian communism or sore gums. In short, the Americans are essentially unbusinesslike, artists and imaginers in soul. So much the better for them, I like them for it; but it would never do to tell them...
...annual report last week Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, surgeon general of the Navy, pointed with pride to practical elimination of the CO peril in Navy flying as the year's outstanding achievement of his department. Twenty-five pilots and researchers conducted the tests at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory at Anacostaia, D. C., the pilots taking up all types of ships used by the Navy under all kinds of conditions, bringing down samples of air from cockpit & cabin, giving samples of their own blood for analysis after each flight...