Word: hazard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he announced his "Millikan Rays" to the world last year, Dr. Millikan did not hazard a guess at their source. They seemed to him to be coming at the earth in all directions. In the Swiss report of last week, however, it was stated that the greatest "penetration radiation" had been detected when the pit on Mont Monch yawned directly up at the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda. This observation fitted in with a theory that the Millikan Rays are the result of atoms being disintegrated during the formation of new stars, for the constellations named all contain spiral...
Last week, though it was too early to hazard the statement that Abyssinia positively will not obtain justice or redress through the League, the Italian Foreign Office issued a significant statement: "The incidents culminating in a protest by Abyssinia to the League may be considered closed. The Government of France has indicated that it will not support the claims of Abyssinia before the League...
...Conkling had no issue. Gas Engineer-Violinist Conkling is the son of B. F. ("Dry Feet") Conkling, the engineer who abandoned the sinking General Slocum "without getting his feet wet," when she sank with 1000 casualties in the East River, Manhattan (1904). He is likewise onetime husband of Grace Hazard Conkling, poetess-in-waiting to the Manhattan column of Franklin P. Adams (famed as "F. P. A."); father to adolescent Poetess Hilda Conkling...
...Hazard, Ky., one Lucy Napier, 25, arrived at the railroad station with some things done up in a bundle. She had walked 40 miles from her father's hill cabin to take the train for Happy, Ky., where she was going to be married. She had never seen a train before, and as the old-fashioned car bumped over the rails toward Viper, Ky., she sat trembling on the edge of her seat. The conductor shoved his red face around the edge of the door. "Vi-p-e-E-R," he shouted, "V-I-I-per." Lucy Napier jumped...
Next day Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, sonorous and emphatic leader of the Woman's Party, had something...