Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nosed out by the Yale first-year outfit on Soldiers Field by the margin of one point. Last fall he played substitute tackle to Coady, this year's leader and to Lindner, but this year his all-round line play, and especially his down-the-field work and his threat to opposing punters, won him the starting assignment in all but the first two games this fall. Rarely was he disabled, and though no figures are available it is probable that he spent more time on the field than any other Crimson player during the past season...
...shot-put, the javelin throw, and the discus event. He also qualified for the Intercollegiates on the following week-end, and though he failed to break into the scoring column in the face of the country's best weight men, he showed sufficient potentiality to make him a serious threat for intercollegiate honors this spring...
...notes between the U. S. and Mexico. He concluded: "There is a difference of view between the two Governments as to the effect of Mexico's Constitution and laws upon property of Americans. . . . Undoubtedly emphatic language has been used. . . . But I do not find in the notes any threat, any ultimatum. ... I do not think there is going to be any break with Mexico...
...Kellogg's very severe note to Mexico contained what was, to all intents and purposes, a threat to sever diplomatic relations and to withdraw our recognition of the Calles government...
...Northern supporters, on the other hand, are reactionaries. All the Chinese Conservatives, monarchists, and oligarchs have allied themselves in the face of the Cantonese threat. The insurgent generals and their bandit chiefs have cast aside their differences. The armies of the Peking government are composed of a dozen different and unrelated factions, whose only common motive is the resistance of reform...