Word: incur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list had an immediate chance for a $15 a share profit, later for a $137 profit. But they had to promise not to sell for two and a half years without first offering it to the company. If they kept the stock, as many doubtless did rather than incur Samuel Insull's displeasure, they now are of course on the long, long Insull mourners' bench...
...company last year, had promised the flyers $10,000. "Mr. Fokker's promise aroused considerable controversy among our officers. We did not feel that he had any authority to make the promise and we didn't think we got value received in publicity, but rather than incur his ill will we paid the money...
...justice into their own hands. The same disregard for law has continued unabated. And now the only means left to demonstrate the power of that law,--the strict imposition of sentence,--has been cast aside because a governor was too weak to face the angry censure which impartiality would incur...
Despite the belief that a win is far from improbable, Yale is nothing like overconfident. Her best hopes lie in the renewal of team play and the work of goalers Beard and Curtiss. Special care will be taken to incur fewer penalties which have left the New Haven defenses vulnerable in several of the last games...
...14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He further declared that he considered N. G. L. comparatively lucky, that he had feared "a further squeeze" of $250,000. He added that North German Lloyd berthed her ships all over the world but "never has to hire lawyers or incur special expenses [i. e. graft] for pier leases in any city but New York." On the stand, Ex-Convict Maier, who got accommodations for Mayor Walker on the Bremen last summer and accompanied him to Europe (TIME, Sept. 7), testified that he had requested the pier lease as his reward...