Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Risk Either...
Here are two choices; on the one hand we risk foreign domination, on the other we risk nothing--we are sure of disaster. Let us risk domination and use our wealth and influence to set up a centralized authority which will enforce peace...
...took our pitchers outside in this weather, we would be running more risk of sore arms in an afternoon, than we do in a month of work in the cage", said Coach Mitchell yesterday, explaining why he kept the pitchers of the University baseball squad from outdoor work. The whole squad has been practicing regularly on the Freshman field except the pitchers, and the game with Boston University on Saturday may be the first real tryout for the pitching staff...
...There is no risk attached to it 'and nothing to lose. This whole subject has appealed to me because I've always had such an enormous interest in life?in the present and the future, but not the past, except the historic past...
Gandhi's "soul force", which appeared to be the secret of his extraordinary influence, might be described at the risk of seeming pedantic as "non violent coercion by methods of nonparticipation." Briefly, he wished to free India from foreign domination, and to bring this about he initiated his famous triple boycott, urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine...