Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this worldly environment, young Marian Evans had long feared that she might become "earthly, sensual and devilish." She wrote little but translations, but even these were a moral hazard: she had lost her faith while translating Strauss's Life of Jesus. She was about to lose something else. Says Author Haight: "The sensual side seems to have developed to a marked degree while she was translating The Essence of Christianity." From this work Marian learned Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach's notions about free love. She had met "the ugliest man in London," George Lewes, the biographer of Goethe...
Robert A. Hawkins '43, Belmont Mass.; Benjamin M. Hazard '42, Narragansett, R.I.; Lemuel S. Hillman '41, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Question M. Hope '42, Cambridge, Mass.; Peter D. JOhnson '43, Norwich, Conn.; Howard V. Jones Jr. '43, Waban, Mass...
...weight of over ten pounds. With respect to the torso much greater gains in length were registered by the abdomen than by the chest, Dr. Seltzer stated. Although greater appreciation of the art of eating might be suspected as an explanation for this phenomenon, Dr. Seltzer was unwilling to hazard an analysis...
Said he (to a Senate subcommittee): "It is a terrific task to guarantee that the Canal will remain open while we still permit commercial traffic through it: Yet it is unthinkable that we would suppress commercial traffic. So we always have a hazard there. . . ."What General Marshall had in mind was the danger that some supposedly innocent tanker, tramp steamer or fishing boat on its way through the locks might suddenly turn out to be a floating time bomb. How acute, ever-present and unpredictable that peril is, the Army learned last week when its own transport...
...more clearly through our difficulties and dangers than we did some months ago, because foreign countries, friends and foes, recognize the giant, enduring, resilient strength of Great Britain and the British Empire, do not let us dull for one moment the sense of the awful hazard in which we stand...