Word: perils
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Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
...sobering thought that the 1926 price level was based on a gold dollar of the old weight. . . . There is no point in insisting on a return to the old gold parity, but a scheme to depreciate the dollar to uncertain limits . . . does not inspire confidence. The peril of sheer greenbackism is real and not imaginary." Chamber of Commerce. At a special meeting dominated by chop-whiskered old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the New York State Chamber of Commerce solemnly resolved that "measures should be taken with the utmost promptness looking toward the restoration of a permanent gold standard...
...argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade between America and the Soviet Maritime Provinces might contain irritating implications if Japanese invasion caused it to be broken off. The howl which would ascend to the starry skies of our Western states, ably supported by the Yellow Peril agitators of California and elsewhere, might put even a moderately sane Washington government temporarily out of its head. Such things have occurred before. CASTOR...
...interbreeding, raised his head alertly at Japan's announcement, last spring, that though she had withdrawn from the League of Nations, she had no idea of relinquishing her League-given mandate over the Marianne, Caroline, Palau, Yap and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant...
...regular class officers are elected, along with the officers of the upper classes, in January or thereabouts. Incidentally, it may be well to remark that the offices of the Sophomore and Junior classes are momentarily in peril of being abolished. The Freshman class officers have a number of duties to perform in connection with the Jubilee and so forth, but those of the other classes hold positions which are almost solely honorary. With the coming of the House Plan, class spirit inevitably tends to die out and upperclassmen naturally feel that their first allegiance is to their House. So also...