Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe has unmistakably taken on the aspect of a powder barrel. Divided as it is, into two main camps, it would need only a reckless move to precipitate a general conflict. France, Poland, and the Little Entente of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Jugoslavia are ranged against Germany, Austria, and Hungary, with Italy and England relatively unknown factors. The recent Arms Shipment incident would seem to place Italy with Austria, and England with France. In such a case, the preponderance of France and her allies would be so marked as to make the result a foregone conclusion. Economically, the Central European powers...
...points to 392 for Hill & Binda, 227 for Sheehan & Croley. On hand was the biggest crowd in U. S. cycling history, mostly to cheer for red-headed Torchy Peden, just back from Europe, and his French-Canadian partner, Jules Audy. They weakened at the finish. Grinning and reckless, red-shirted Debaets won seven of the last ten sprints to clinch first prize...
...crippling the facilities, equipment, and faculties of colleges and universities is clearly insane. Education, for the State, is an investment and a service which should be the last thing to get the axe. It is quite true, as the Report charges, that these institutions have been guilty of reckless expansion. But most of that has already been wiped out by previous programs of contraction in the early years of the depression. Little remains but to lop off expenditures and salaries...
...most sensational, and the most reckless, of recent attacks on the relation of the university economist to the depression has come from Mr. Frederick Prince, Boston capitalist, who brands the professor as either a meddler or a coward, and asks, "Why should a man ever run away from the world except through cowardice? Professors are our curse--they talk too much." For his part, he recommends in a very definite fashion that the nation "chuck its professors," and draw its economic enlightenment from more practical sources...
Reversed in the Mineola, L. I. county court was last year's conviction of James Abram Garfield, grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S., for reckless driving...