Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered Steele's name in every event except the dive and breaststroke, while the Terrier star will be limited to just three events. Silverman, the other outstanding B.U. natator, may give some trouble to Walter S. White '36, Leventritt's running mate in the breaststroke, but should not threaten the Crimson record-breaker...
Another visiting natator who will cause some trouble this afternoon is Charles Kyle, a backstroker, who, while he may not threaten Captain Edward E. Stowell '34, will pass Charles N. Breed, Jr. '36, or at least push the latter to the limit...
...market at a discount amounting to an interest rate of .375% (compared to .22% on Treasury bills). *The Chamber also issued a pamphlet quoting without comment from two of Grover Cleveland's messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit...
...according to the Government's announcement. This system of presenting the electorate with only one slate consisting entirely of Government-picked candidates, Benito Mussolini introduced into Italy five years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Inevitably the Hitler Government must win-100%. Characteristically Chancellor Hitler did not threaten last week to re-arm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's technique of assault, highly developed during his struggle for power in Germany, consists in alternate hammer blows and conciliatory gestures. This method kept his German political foes in turmoil, helped to paralyze their resistance until the Nazis...
...often been remarked that heavy traffic in the Yard is for the most part as unnecessary as it is annoying. There is a serious question whether the sleek and oleaginous vans of the carriage tradesman or the monstrous drays of the express companies threaten pensive scholar and woolgathering student the more. Perhaps the one, stalking in his quiet, feline approach, is the worse for life and limb, the other the more menacing to sanity as it honks and howls and rumbles and clatters. At any rate the intruders are a nuisance...