Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to understand the advantage of a general strike whose full weight must be borne by the working men themselves. Strikes in a single industry have time and again proven beneficial to labor, shortening hours and increasing pay. But a deliberate paralysis of industrial necessities would seem to threaten the very existence of the present form of society, to attempt the imposition of the will of the Trade Union Congress on parliament. It makes little difference in the final outcome whether a revolution be accomplished by bloodless starvation or gory bayonets...
Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has been sighted 65 feet _ high, 1690 feet long, with an estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany...
...banking in England before 1800. This was admittedly not the great period of such institutions, but it may be considered as interesting as any. The growth of usury until the Church sanctioned it is a story of constant struggle between bankrupt monarchs and the money lenders whom they could threaten...
Yale continued to threaten in the closing session and Frey and Ferguson, the bespectacled Eli center, staged some team play that kept Cumings constantly busy. With only two minutes left to play, Yale sent five men down the ice and the Crimson net guardian was subjected to a shower of shots from all angles. With the timekeeper's eyes glued on his watch, Pratt picked off one of the Eli rebounds and skated the length of the rink to sink Harvard's second tally, 40 seconds before the official end of the hockey season. The summary follows: HARVARD YALE Gross...
...Republicans who voted for the Court did so with trembling tongues, fearing what the irreconcilables may do to them in the next election if such men as Senator Borah carry the fight into states where pro-Court and anti-Court sentiment is nearly equal. Several members of the 17 threaten to do so, but the arguments of the opposition furnish ready-made ammunition to the outs who want to get into places of the pro-Court Senators. At the last minute before the vote, Senator Hiram Johnson exclaimed...