Word: hazarding
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...four position is held down by Pete Hazard, who earlier in the year had a tough fight with Joe Bodell for the position. Like most of the members of the 150's he is a hard worker. Behind him is Seth Crocker who is another work horse. At two, Pote Koeniger is one of the power houses of the boat. In the bow position for another year is Gordon Gilkey, the only other senior in the boat. Gilkey is a reliable oarsman and pulls a large amount of water. He will be hard to replace next year...
...injection device which sprays fuel into engine cylinders to replace carburetors from which vaporized fuel is sucked by the engine. With injection, engine builders can use less volatile fuels, soon to be commercially available, cut down fire hazard...
...Varsity Boating: Bailey, stroke; Turner, seven; Pierce, six; Gifford, five; Hazard, four; Croker, three; Koenjger two; Gilkey, bow; and Larner...
...father of craps was the English game of hazard, which is of considerable antiquity. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a specific mention of hazard as early as 1300, and say: that according to William of Tyre, who died in 1190, the game was invented by English crusaders at the siege of an Arabian castle called Hazart, or Asart. Hazard is virtually obsolete now, but was extensively played in the U. S. as late as the early 1890s...
...some 800 years throws of two, three and twelve at hazard were called crabs, and to throw one of those numbers was to crab. In France the game of hazard was called krabs, and is so called in a long description of the game in the third volume of the Mathématiques group of the Encyclopeédic Méthodiqué, dates 1792. Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined...