Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many the play will be an adventure in the worried field of the inexplicable. Most minds will not understand and will therefore condemn it. Almost any fine forward-looking endeavor in the arts runs this maddening risk. For the rest the play will be a memorable experience...
...institutions caste, grows up around football prowess. . . . One of the literary clubs of Yale languished until it was revived by the happy accident that a football Captain happened to have a nice taste-in verse. And that season poetry became popular and quite the thing to do. But the risk is too great. Another century may elapse before there comes again to college one who can turn an end and a couplet...
...part, which can be had therefrom on the professional side. As of old, the innocent suffer for the guilty and the high-minded and idealistic head of the physical education department of a university, so far as amateur competition is concerned, must suffer by reason of the risk involved in permitting him to compete as an amateur because of the low-minded, non-idealistic, dishonest money grabbers who, in the guise of coaches, instructors, teachers, attendants or what not, would indirectly be receiving compensation for their competition upon the amateur field. If there could be a body with supreme intelligence...
From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...
...Jouvenal, who is Editor-in-Chief of Le Matin, accepted the decidedly thankless post with some hesitation and only after it had been found almost impossible to discover an able civilian statesman who was willing to risk his reputation in Syria. Because he is a civilian, he will be "High Commissioner" rather than "High Com-mander...