Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have felt impelled to write and congratulate you on the place you fill in my reading life. These letters always have been, frankly, applause for your initiative and for the maintenance of your ideals. The more I read TIME, the better I like it and even at the risk of dangerous repetition, I again salute...
...from the U. S. They were members of an Italian cinema troupe, come to make a realistic film of the dogs in action with their attendants. The Augustinians were willing. But the troupe, having reached its destination, was not. The actors had had enough snow and cold. They would risk their lives no further. They gave up, they quit. The Augustinians laughed and served them warm food, hot drink...
...first. In China such a refusal causes the suitor to "lose face," a disgrace so abyssmal that many Chinese have committed suicide rather than endure it. Usually this contingency is circumvented by having the proposal of marriage conveyed through intermediaries; but Chiang Kai-shek has been obliged to risk his "face" because his fiancee was that intensely Westernized "modern woman," Miss Soong Meiling...
...risk one's life but not one's life insurance flying. To destroy the popular fallacy that normal policies do not insure against aviation accidents the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company queried 50 national underwriters. Forty-two have no clause in standard policy contracts eliminating liability from aeronautical activities. Four have special clauses eliminating such liability until the policy is one year old; paid. Four have similar clauses for two years...
...aesthetic outpourings", because "it is admittedly difficult to get our undergraduate to read any sort of professed literary endeavor". In the cir- cumstances, should such a paper try to keep its place in the sun by catering "to the tastes of the majority"-- or should it run the risk of suicide and print "stuff after the manner of the Dial in its wildest moments...