Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Illusion" proved conclusively that under modern conditions even the victor in war would lose by war. It proved that thesis conclusively, and yet Europe went to war, and the war not only brought about material prostration that must be long continued, but it left conditions and passions that threaten further dire conflict, unless the psychology of civilized nations is altered...
...case is not at all parallel between the colonies and Ireland today. The colonies were not offered every indulgence, Home Rule, Dominion government if so there certainly would have been no Revolutionary war. The Irish are not bowed down under taxes that threaten to ruin trade. The colonies were not treacherous to the mother country in times of war (to wit: the French and Indian war) as were the Irish during the great war. In fact the points of similarity are so few that it is ridiculous to say that the cases are parallel...
...tendency to enact uncertain laws seems to be increasing, and, what is still worse, the people tolerate it and there are but faint demands for improvement. Intent on some immediate exigency, and with slight consideration of the larger issues, we create autocratic power by giving administrative officials who can threaten indictment the opportunities of criminal statutes, without any appropriate definition of crime...
...conscience, as we should say today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people to repentance. Never, as you may observe, was he informed that Nineveh would be destroyed, or even directed to threaten the people with overthrow. But it was, of course, understood that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object was repentance, not destruction. The threat of the consequences of their sin was the means of bringing about reform...
...outset of the season they defeated Lafayette. Then Rutgers and the Unisity bowed before them. Recently they broke even in two encounters with Dartmouth. In the game played last Wednesday they experienced no difficulty in winning from the Green by a 5-1 score. Dartmouth did not threaten until the last inning, when a hit, followed by two errors, allowed a run to cross the plate. Huntzinger pitched well for the Quakers, holding his opponents to four scattered hits. HARVARD. PENNSYLVANIA. Conlon, s.s. 2b., McNichol Hallock, c.f. s.s., Schriver Emmons, 2b. 3b., Sweeney Jones, 1b. c.f., Strauss Hallowell...