Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persistent abdominal pain and any rash or eruption should be reported at once. The earlier the detection of contagious or other serious illness the greater the protection to the individual and his associates...
...Tokyo last week, Masahira Ota, new Chief of Police, issued a statement opposing the jingoists and their anti-American catcalls: "Incitement of violence and law-breaking by means of anti-American demonstrations must be prevented. Infringements of law will be strictly punished. We shall do our utmost to prevent rash or violent action, due to public speeches or demonstrations. The exclusion question is too important to be treated rashly. Japanese must behave in a manner in keeping with the dignity of a great nation." ¶ The ban on American films was reported to be breaking down in Tokyo...
...will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into the unknown than any other living being has yet been. It is rash, reckless, and usually productive of little immediate good; but had it not been a moving force since the beginning of history, Vespucci had been an obscure Portuguese sailor, and the western prairies would still be the hunting ground of the coyote and the timber wolf...
...threatened fight between the rash and the burly which ended in reciprocal nastiness...
Watkins, a slight young man of medium height, swung on the burly Gallivan, who used to be the toughest umpire-baiter on the Harvard ball teams of the 80's.* Members intervened and bore off the rash Oregonian before he could hurt himself...