Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy entered the War to escape the threat of German domination and is now confronted with the threat of French domination...
...loony" threat...
...sending out these notices, the committee has acted fairly--desiring not to conscript students into the course without warning. But the result has been to cause a good deal of misunderstanding, and much just criticism. The threat of a new course of any kind which may be imposed on undergraduates at the mere whim of some section men or examination correctors is severe. Almost all men make careless mistakes of commission and omission while writing under pressure in an examination; it is not thereby proved that they are in need of a disciplinary course in English Composition...
Tilden rebounded with a threat to withdraw from Davis Cup play and a searing indictment against the Davis Cup Committee system. He alleged that the players were not selected, in some cases, until a few hours before their match. They were given no plan of play. "I feel I am right in refusing to obey instructions given between the third and fourth sets of a match...
Said The Sun and The Globe (New York) : "The threat . . . never to play Davis Cup tennis again seems a bit operatic...