Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lackan, County Mavo, Ireland, a Catholic priest, one Father Quinn, listening drowsily to his radio. The weather reports were coming in: ". . . rains over Holland . . . cold days marching southward through France. . . ." As he reached to turn off the loud speaker, its hoarse voice growled a terrible threat: "High wind and rain ... a hurricane . . . tempest will reach the west coast of Ireland tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning...
...system the Egyptians have seen a grave danger to their water supply, although the British have repeatedly proved that control of water in the drought seasons by no means meant a diminution of the supply. In the new dam project the Egyptians are therefore likely to see a further threat to their riparian agricultural interests...
Although a great deal has been written and said about the relative strength of the Harvard and Penn teams, about Harvard's line driving power, new forward passing attack, and wealth of first class backs, and the Penn passing threat and stubborn defensive strength, there is practically no basis for a reliable comparison of the two elevens...
Menace. U. S. chemical manufacturers are alarmed. Francis P. Garvan, alert President of the Chemical Foundation in New York and spokesman for U. S. producers, regards the combination as a menace. Said he last week: "Is there an American with soul so dead as not to thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon...
Challenge. Said the New York Times in an editorial: "We need not be frightened by this apparent threat. . . . The European challenge is essentially one to American brains. Our . . . chemists must redouble their zeal. . . . Our chemical industry really has no more reason to fear Europe than has our steel industry, always provided that we are ready to draw our belts tighter and go into the competitive struggle with all that we have to give...