Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companies which definitely excluded from their policies in most precise terms all risk of loss or damage by earthquake have not seen their way to pay any claims in respect of risk which was so clearly excepted. The wording of the provision excluding risk of earthquake was, it is understood, submitted to and approved by the Japanese authorities before its issue...
...same time, the British insurance companies, wishing to give a clear sign of their good-will toward those who were insured against the ordinary risk of fire, and of sympathy for those who suffered losses, have decided to return to the insurees a full year's premium. This payment will, in the aggregate, represent a very substantial sum. The form which the return of the premiums will take will probably be that of willingness to cancel the payments due on the policies affected...
...unaffected by sudden changes in temperature, can be welded without risk, and may be used for chemical beakers, thermometers, motion picture projection lenses or other apparatuses where glass is subject to intense heat, eliminating much costly breakage...
...that Mr. Enright is at least courageous is putting the case mildly. When the annals of New York journalism have been filled in late years with accounts of publishers who have found it more expedient to unite than to remain apart, he is a brave man who would risk one more such enterprise. In the years between 1840 and 1870, when Bennett, Dana, Greeley, and Raymond loomed large in the public eye, there were places and needs for a multiplicity of newspapers. The world, figuratively speaking was much larger from the point of view of communication, and the profession...
...other hand" he continued, "closer inspection may prove that there is more to his viewpoint than we had at first imagined. I don't see any risk in either case, since these speakers merely present ideas. It seems to me there is much more reason to allow them to speak to a group of trained men than to permit them to talk on street-corners...