Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as the English long ago did away with royal autocracy, they can find no comfort in a despotic executive. Their mandates threaten to cost them over twenty-eight billions of pounds in the coming year, and have already involved them in complications with other governments, notably with the United States. This burden has been assumed not only without the consent of the English people but in the face of a conspicuous lack of precedent. With former German possessions still being parcelled about by the League, it is only just that assumption of these mandates be subject to parliamentary control...
...Extremists, twice beaten and suffering the loss of many former adherents who have become disgusted with the methods employed, have been forced to use the most dangerous weapon in their power. They threaten to set on foot throughout India a movement advising the people not to pay taxes. As taxation has always been the particularly sore point with the large, ignorant class of India, this idea holds a strong appeal. If this threat is carried out and is successful, the outcome will be certain and fatal. The British Government in India will not trifle with disobedience...
...this critical time reports threaten an influx of twenty-five million foreigners who intend seeking work in the United States. Immigration is no new problem but just now it assumes added weight; hospitality is not the only phase of welcome. Among the many aliens who come annually to these shores, a large percentage are of a low standard of intelligence, and while we may reap substantial benefits from their arrival, there are injurious effects as well to be taken into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate...
Bigelow and Owen Threaten...
...necessary to call attention in the existence at Harvard of book "hogs" in the librarian--the men who keep books for individual use while others are waiting, the men who take out books and "forget" to return them. It is preposterous to trial such men as irresponsible children--to threaten and plead with them. College men are intelligent enough to appreciate fair play, to understand, at least, the reason for the few, simple rules made by the libraries. "Hogging" a book for individual use cannot be excused as carelessness; it is pure selfishness. "Forgetting" to return a book goes much...