Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other with nothing between them except a frontier. The British are endeavoring to align themselves with Italy in forcing an issue in the Ruhr and in insisting upon full representation at a conference with the Germans. The blow is well timed, for France can hardly afford to risk a break with both Britain and Italy. As a corollary, it may be said that a Ruhr peace settlement is brought one step nearer to its realization...
Extensive improvements in the fire apparatus of Sever Hall have been completed it was recently announced, greatly reducing the fire risk of the building. Automatic sprinklers have been installed on all floors over the halls and stairways...
...sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey nor France can afford to risk such an event, which would assuredly wreck the Lausanne conference. Nevertheless, the Turks met the French ultimatum to withdraw troops from the Syrian frontier by increasing their army from 20,000 to 30,000 men, and the French have sent two divisions into Syria...
...always cared more for the steeplechase than the altar, has always been more willing to risk the royal neck in a race than the royal finger in a ring. He can scarce raise an eyebrow but the whole world notes the new slant, a dozen ladies are waiting for the word;--he smiles with appreciation and goes on with his game. He merely enters another Derby, carries a bobbing crown over hedges and dumps it in a creek...
...collection had become so large that the library in Dane Hall was uncomfortably crowded. The risk of fire also began to worry the authorities, for the building was not fireproof and several open fires were kept burning during the winter to heat it. "If the library should be destroyed," said the Dean, "it is probably safe to say that a hundred thousand dollars would not replace it; and its value is increasing rapidly...