Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York University is on the so-called football firmament. As yet you have to remark on the recent victories of the coming Eastern football champions, the noteworthy 30-0 whitewash given to Rutgers, etc. The students of New York University do not threaten to revoke their subscriptions to your most interesting periodical, because they like it too much, but still they feel that the meritorious record of the football team representing N. Y. U. deserves mention in your columns. Thank...
...viewed with alarm by Broadway's first 20 ranking actors. As family chauffeur, Wade Rawlins (Mr. Tilden) keeps tabs on father's, brother's, sister's peccadillos, so that at the most embarrassing moment he is able to drive off the blackmailers who threaten the socially unstable new-rich. Later he blossoms forth a most satisfactory candidate for the daughter's hand, especially since he is not of such lowly station as one might have been led to believe...
...Putnam and French accounted for most of the advances. On the defense the University linemen led by a fast, fighting pivot in the person of Gamache were equally effective. Holy Cross succeeded in penetrating this alert, smashing defense for few gains and were never in a position to threaten the Harvard goal line...
Speculating further afield last week, a handful of alarmists prophesied that the treaty will mark the inception of a concerted Hispano-Italian program of "peaceful penetration" into South America through emigrant organizations and propaganda which may eventually threaten the Monroe Doctrine...
...Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...