Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. ... He can neither prey on the misfortunes of others nor hoard his labor. . . . All history warns us against rash experiments which threaten violent changes in our monetary standard and the degradation of our currency. . . . Every unstable and fluctuating dollar fails as a basis of credit, and in its use begets gambling, speculation and undermines the foundations of honest enterprise...
Both the Sabrina and the Crimson forwards pressed their opponents closely during the first half, and several scuffies nearly resulted in goals for both Amherst and Harvard. Jonathan S. England '35, Crimson goalie, often pulled the chestnuts out of the fire by rash dashes out of the net. The Amherst forwards were constantly shooting for the net, and only cool work by halfbacks John Dorman '36 and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 kept the ball away from the Crimson end of the field...
Even dullards could see the drift of such talk. Europe's entire Press (particularly the Swiss) broke out in a rash of headlines suggesting that the Disarmament Conference, scheduled to reconvene in Geneva on Oct. 16, will face in acute form the alternatives of Disarmament or War. Slightly appalled by the effect of the dynamite Prince Bismarck had so dutifully exploded, the German Foreign Office appealed to Ambassador-at-Large Davis to "mediate" in Geneva between their delegation and the French...
...since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
...picture, not left to fight its way against entrenched foreign competition as was the case in South America where France and Germany were flying for a full year before P. A. A. got in. Nevertheless, like a wise eagle that scouts before it screams, President Trippe makes no rash predictions. He has not even committed himself to the Greenland-Iceland route, which is only one of seven possible channels across the Atlantic. But he confidently states that "any trade route in the world can be flown with the equipment now at hand...