Word: hazarding
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...took the stand for the defense, he readily admitted that if the securities had been sold Mrs. Busby would have been far better off. But, he argued: "My guess was wrong. If any one can answer the question of when to sell and when not to sell, all the hazard will be taken out of the banking and investment business. . . . We thought the market would show an upturn and I still think that, with the situation as it was at that time, we should have held the securities for future sale. . . . Among the securities . . . were 4,941 shares of Middle...
...constitutionality of the Act, the editors state is largely a question of "judicial psychology." They hazard no prophecy as to the Supreme Court's decision, but conclude that there is no insuperable obstacle to its being upheld. The emergency caused by the depression may be used as a ground for either overruling or distinguishing decisions which might otherwise serve as a basis for overthrowing the Act. The article prophesies, however, that the codes for purely local business retail trade and the like will be held unenforceable...
Trials in the fall sculling regatta closed yesterday afternoon, with only two heats in the Junior singles race scheduled. In the first heat A. V. Meigs 11, won from John Hallowell '31, covering the three-quarter mile course in 5 minutes, 8 seconds. William P. Hazard '36 took the second race in the slower time of 5 minutes, 23 seconds, while Henry S. Miller '35 was a close second...
...attempt to add insult to injury, Cantabrigian garagemen have called in the bilious gargoyles of the local constabulary to force the cars of students off streets; this duty they have accomplished with a maximum of asininity, officiousness, and impoliteness. Their excuse that the fire hazard makes it necessary to do this attains a truly remarkable degree of thinness when it is considered that cars can be parked on the streets all day long without creating any fire hazard. Realistically viewed, these activities of the police amount to nothing more nor less than a racketeering expedition for the benefit...
...chief difficulties in the way of this scheme are those of fire hazard and insurance; the use of untaxed property for profitable ends; and the construction of a second driveway into the space. The first objection could be met by employing student night-watchmen. The second would be nullified by the strictly educational and athletic use to which this small profit could be put. And the third would be solved by an inexpensive wooden ramp and the removal of one iron post...