Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October, because there was no room available until the dormitory was completed. Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 and M. A. Cheek Jr. '26 addressed the men and afterwards smokes and refreshments were served. Only about half the class attended, probably due to the late date with the consequent threat of the first examinations hanging overhead games. W. T. Buddington 3M. Secretary...
...third threat to British rubber supremacy looms in the Negro republic of Liberia, West Africa, where the plantations of Big White Rubberman Harvey Firestone are now in process of producing (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Meanwhile, what is being done by Great Britain to defend her grip on rubber...
Though not even Queen Victoria could concoct a more terrifying threat than this-that she might abdicate-the new series of letters is starred with innumerable dynamic and forceful passages, many urging that the most truculently repressive measures be taken against natives in India, Africa, Egypt or Ireland, where "the more one does for the Irish the more unruly and ungrateful they seem...
...blind, secretive eyes, sharing also with their no less sly, no less secretive models the total inability to escape destruction, became puddles or streams of burning wax. Lindbergh looked brave no longer, a murderer lowered the frail knife which he had held so long in a poised and useless threat. All this frail company of famous people dwindled, slipped, leaned and perished into a huge and hungry flame. The owner of the Eden Musée, one Gumpertz, was away in the South. Firemen came, the manager's 16-year old daughter, Lillian Seeger, pleaded with them and stared...
...such revelations as the Senate committee is bringing to light in regard to the oil deals that took place in 1920. There no longer seems to be any doubt that graft was rampant in more fields than this one during the Harding regime, but here particularly lies the threat to a Republican victory in November. Dishonesty that took place eight years ago is not likely to arouse much public indignation now, especially if the guilt can be attributed to politically dead men. Thus the fact that the Secretary of the interior and the Attorney General then in office had been...