Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson record breakers before they can check up a victory to their credit. Besides Watters and Tibbetts, who are counted upon to contribute their known ability, several new stars are being watched. A bet that both Miller and Fletcher will break a record tomorrow would not be a wholly reckless one in view of their recent performances. Various records have frequently tottered when either of them was on the track. Last week the triangular one fell before Miller's thunderous stride, and the world's time was twice equalled by the Crimson hurdler, Fletcher. Haggerty is also expected to show...
...William C. Covert, General Secretary of the Board of Education, lamented that a rank, reckless individualism was playing havoc with "our younger generation...
...duchess' reckless regard for a young silversmith...
...Brittany were filled with other exquisite persons- savants, artists, connoisseurs of life. Madame Vervier was a powerful person, important to all who knew her, all important to more than one. If she left her husband for a lover and then had other loves, that was courageous as well as reckless. If she forfeited her position in le monde, that was her affair. Madame Vervier lived true to her lights; and they were clear, honest lights...
...Prudential was founded in 1848 in London, by a group of public-spirited men who wished to do away with the expensive and often fraudulent burial clubs of that day. The insurance business already existed, but it partook of a reckless and unscientific gambling character and its methods were frequently crooked and coldblooded...