Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...risk of appearing flippant, it may be said that the Mayas have never had a first-class press agent. While the works of Stephens found many readers, they were overshadowed by the publication of Prescott's fascinating "Conquest of Mexico." Prescott dwelt on the semi-barbaric culture of the Aztecs. He failed to stress the fact that the Mayas had an older and higher civilization, and to this day, if you speak of "ruined cities in Mexico," the average layman will respond. "Oh, yes, you mean the Aztecs." The fact is that the Mayas were far superior to the Aztecs...
...hangover from his old point of view, however, since at last he shows a real understanding of the undergraduate's problem. What "The Old Dog" terms "destructive criticism" on the part of youth is aimed, he says, at "the cold-blooded methods of modern education." And then, at the risk of calling down upon his own head his premature judgment of the attitude of youth, he devotes four pages to a criticism of these same cold-blooded methods...
...great financial loss?and does not want the Government to be the loser. Whether or not these measures would leave the Government to pay the bill depends on their details?not yet announced by Messrs. Capper and Dickinson. Whether the Administration would permit private organizations to take a risk which they regard as unsound for the Government to assume, is a matter of policy not announced by Messrs. Coolidge, Jardine and Hoover...
...Briand. Suppose the Socialist wing of the Cartel should get out of hand once more? They reflected that a Socialist party caucus was shortly to be convoked. After that it might or might not be evident that the Socialists would line up solidly with the Cartel. Why risk a showdown with Briand before them? In a word, all these Cartellist doubts served to persuade Cartellist Ministers Chautemps, Deladier, Durafour and Renoult that they ought to do M. Briand's bidding once more...
...Then investments in Russia since the Revolution are subject to this same risk...