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Word: rashness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be a rash man who would state that we are finally entering the industrial millennium, but there is a great ray of hope that America is finding herself on the road to a solution of the greatest of all her problems. That problem is to adjust our economic system to our racial ideals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Speech | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Seemingly the rash students were bent upon egging Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch of Jugoslavia into a suicidal war with Italy; but circumstances were not lacking to extenuate their folly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Down with Mussolini! | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...cover bets which apparently were placed in a moment of mistaken confidence. Rumors that Philip Hichborn '29 would replace the veteran Bob Lampoon in the box for the humorists, and that V. O. Jones '28, versatile CRIMSON tosser, would be unable to play are believed to have caused the rash action of the Lampoon rooters. Word got around yesterday, however, that the CRIMSON is firmly resolved to maintain the integrity of its football traditions and that in consequence the score would stand s the sinking sun is being sunk over Soldiers Field this afternoon. CRIMSON 23, Lampoon 2. The confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Bends Over Today to Take Annual Beating From Crimson Bats--Jimmy Walker Will Toss First Ball of Game | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

...fact was that swashbuckling Marshal & Dictator Josef Pilsudski suddenly dismissed from command of the important Lemberg garrison General Wladyslaw Sikorski, a onetime (1922-23) Prime Minister of Poland. Reason: rash General Sikorski has just published a book denying credit to Marshal Pilsudski for having stopped by his generalship the Bolshevist advance into Poland in 1920. The credit should go instead, writes General Sikorski, to the supervising strategy of famed French Commander General Max Weygand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Portents | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Millikan cautions against rash constructions. The experiments are not yet completed and much remains to be proved, but he admits these discoveries to be the first indications that elements are being continually created from electrons. Support for this hypothesis can be found on all sides. On the side of the sun, for instance, there is an extraordinary abundance of both hydrogen and helium. What is more plausible than that the one should be created from the other? On the side of physics, there are no other nuclear changes which could take place, as far as science knows now, that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coefficient .305 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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