Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's future is that this country today stands as the only nation of the world resting solidly upon democracy, and that we cannot afford to hold out or even contend for the last cent that can be taken from our debtor nations at the imminent risk of creating a feeling that we forced an unfair settlement rather than one of liberality...
...been found, who, whether honest or not, is at least modest. A congressman has returned from Europe, but yet he does not know all about it, and has no solutions for the problems. Here is a man who is running almost as much risk as Victor Berger, for he is about as far away from the usual congressional character...
...through the world, with the result that his loyal subjects in South Africa decided that his visit could be fittingly celebrated only by examples of the closest approximations to his favorite sport. And since the heads of the Zulu tribes, less foolhardy than the Duncan sisters, did not dare risk their little Evas, they nobly substituted themselves. At least some such explanation must surely suggest itself to those damsels who are still thrilling from the tread of the royal toes...
...eating clubs, but the great unwashed (meaning the postgraduates) wander hungrily from the "Splendid" to the "Georgian", or dissipate at "The Betty Day", and wonder why their appetites are not so good as formerly. Charge accounts are unknown: there are too many students for the proprietors to take any risk...
...immortal truths that man doth not live by logic only, or by bread only, and that if the undergraduate does not, while yet he may, acquire a taste for those arts surely to be called liberal because fine, and free from all taint of professionalism, the graduate runs serious risk of never acquiring...