Word: threatened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With domestic politics quiet for the moment, the equally political conference of the Allied Premiers over the eternal question of German reparations is again to the fore. The acridly partizan politics in Paris threaten as usual to hold up agreement upon the Experts' Plan. Yet the business community in the U. S., although heartily weary of futile European conferences, is unusually hopeful that this time some definite basis of concerted action regarding Germany can be secured. How much actual buying in U. S. markets this would develop, is problematical...
...Doth threaten yawning, billowy death...
...Connell and Coach Teschner, will leave on the 1.15 o'clock train for Exeter bent on retrieving their laurels lost at Andover last Saturday. Although the Exeter team appears not to be quite up to the standard set by their rivals, their entries contain many experienced athletes, bound to threaten...
...from the southern hemisphere come to the United States in the near future, and while they may not occasion the world-wide interest which came to Firpo they will make apparent that in the future their countries must be considered as providing formidable antagonists which may, in time, even threaten the undoubted supremacy of the United Stated in this sport...
...fact that he has gone to no extremes. He believes thoroughly in the value of the competitive spirit and of inter-institutional games; where he rightly draws the line is at the point where athletics cease to be a means to better standards of physical health, and threaten instead to over shadow and even to undermine the principle of balanced development which is the aim of modern education...