Word: hazard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, Travis, an Australian, represented the U. S. in 1904, but Sweetser is the first U. S.-born golfer to loft over the championship hazard...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont is, so far as American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing...
...Morgan & Co., discourse on the aims and methods of investment bankers who deal in foreign securities. Mr. Morrow rarely talks in public, but always to the point. Money, said he, should not be collected by war: "Entirely apart from the immorality of putting human lives to the hazard of modern war where the sole issue is a pecuniary claim, there is a conclusive practical reason against such a course, in that war in the great majority of cases does not, and cannot accomplish the desired result. Loans are made to foreign governments in reliance primarily upon the good faith...
...even wider than in the past, 82 applications for financial aid were received. After a careful investigation the six scholarships of the Club were awarded as follows to men who are now Freshmen in Harvard: W. C. Goodwin, of Marblehead High, David Guarnaccia, of Wakefield High, Willis G. Hazard, of Roxbury Latin, John F. Ryan, of Beverly High, Marshall Schalk, of Boston Latin, and L. R. Henrich, of Newton High...
...since the whole equals the sum of its parts, what is true in all parts of the world must be true in the world at large. Therefore, the more firemen in the world, the fewer fires the world has. With no firemen the fire hazard would be unspeakable. Carrying out the analogy logically, it seems that the more soldiers the less war, whereas if there were no soldiers in the world nor battle equipment, the war hazard would be unspeakable...