Word: hazarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only defeated when it was cut out of Henley finals in England, so a large returning group should mean a great deal. It seems fairly conclusive however, that the light weights will not venture upon foreign waters this year. The boating: Bailey, stroke; Turner, seven; Pierce, six; Gifford, five; Hazard, four; Crocker, three; Koeniger, two; Gilkey, bow; and Larner in the cox's seat...
...Courts are 110 ft. long, 38 ft. wide, with a net-covered recess behind the server's court called a dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung net into the hazard court, are other recesses called galleries and doors. Behind the receiver is another slot called a grille. Sloping down toward the court over these recesses and over the wall behind the receiver is a shedlike roof called a penthouse. The server serves the ball with a mighty cut, the deadliest...
Historian Frank G. Menke is centuries out of the way when he claims (TIME, Feb. 27, p. 28) that "the U. S. game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed 'Johnny Crapaud' (French for toad). The pastime became known as 'Crapaud's Game,' then 'Crap's Game,' finally . . . craps...
...once more have an unobstructed view of the ground ; the ship, low-hung, can be loaded with passengers and freight without the use of a ramp; mechanics can get to its engines for minor adjustment from the ground without using stands. Also important: the high-wing construction lessens the hazard of wingtip stalling at low speeds to which some low-wing jobs are prone...
...game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed "Johnny Crapaud'' (French for toad). The pastime became known as "Crapaud's Game," then "Crap's Game," finally-after it spread up the Mississippi and trickled throughout the country-craps...