Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell's score came when an Eliot punt traveled low and fast into the arms of Norm Blotner, Ballboy backfield threat, who started fast, eluded the Elephant ends, and crossed the 25 yards between him and the goal line after an exhibition of twisting and reversing in which not a single Eliot man touched...
...voluminous reading notes, are the chief butts of faculty criticism. No attempt is made to change a man's individual style of notes unless they are unintelligible or illegible. Such supervision, restricted as it is to one elementary course of an unusual kind, can hardly be called a threat to Harvard's liberal scheme of education...
These apocalyptic questions boiled down to one-what would Italy get if she backed up her peace proposal with a threat to go in with Germany and Russia? That a peace proposal was imminent few doubted. That Britain and France would accept it few believed. Britons, believing that its main purpose was to make Britain appear to be guilty of continuing the war, accepted its challenge beforehand. Said Winston Churchill, in a speech on war aims that observers believed made him a real candidate for Prime Minister...
Beyond the wondering stage and into reality went the San Francisco Exchange, which handles some $100,000,000 in sales annually, could clearly see its business vanishing into other States if "ham-&-eggs" brought the threat of an annual tax of $3,000,000-a tax greater than the total of brokers' commissions. If "ham-&-eggs" passed, announced President William R. Bacon, the Exchange would move to taxfree, divorce-famed Reno, Nev. No idle bluff was Frisco's Stock Exchange making. For last week papers for the incorporation of The San Francisco Stock Exchange Inc. were filed...
...take long for the magazine-reading public to hear about the young Greenwich Villager who let her hair flow to her shoulders when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...