Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been lowered to $8.50 a week. Profits were maintained during 1932-33 despite the lower dining hall rates in that year because the general price level of food had fallen correspondingly. Now, however, when dining hall rates are at their lowest, general food prices are rising sharply, and even threaten a net loss to the University from operation of the dining halls until it can readjust its rates in accordance with the new price level...
Each national park is a wild life sanctuary in which every form of wild life native to the park receives total protection. Occasionally some species benefits from the changes wrought by human developments and becomes so numerous as to threaten the existence of some rarer, less adaptable, species. At such times it may become necessary to adopt control measures to reduce the predatory species, but such control measures are only temporary and local in their nature...
...Madrid during a sweltering summer Spaniards dodge fights. The Foreign Office referred Ambassador Bowers to the War Office, remarking that so much as to threaten a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil is a serious military crime. The War Office balked Mr. Bowers by stating that War Minister Manuel Azana (who is also Premier of Spain) was on vacation, and that that was that. In Washington, after receiving cabled reports, U. S. Acting Secretary of State William Phillips called in Spanish Ambassador Juan Francisco de Cardenas, asked him pleasantly to bring pressure for the five's release...
Probably War Lord Feng was bluffing but his words produced the effect sure to follow when Chinese hear a leader of their race actually grow bold enough to threaten Japan. The Canton Government of South China headed by General Chen Chi-tang promptly pitched into the Nanking Government "of all China" headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who has made a truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). In view of this truce. Generalissimo Chiang had dispatched 60,000 troops to quell War Lord Feng, only to receive demands from General Chen that he call them back. "Canton," wired Canton...
Next day the Times-Picayune published a four-column layout of New Orleans' charging wild life with the caption: "Rumrunner and Senator Threaten Times-Picayne Photographer...