Word: hazarded
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...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...
...leapt before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning, and contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student becomes a mere animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual...
Vince Bailey's shell followed Wilson's as Dean's and Hazard's trailed his lightweight crew. The three who brought up the rear were, in sequence, those stroked by Hinchcliffe, Rogers, and Bodell. It was Comstock's boat which crossed the line first last year...
...Hazard's boat: Elliot, Swain, Crocker, Blatchford, Anderson, Dinwiddie, Thomas, and Gallatine...