Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present gelatine reel. The new product is said to be of standard width, hard to tear, imperishable and practically non-in-flammable-the new projection machine to cost in the neighborhood of $50, thus offering an opportunity for showing standard pictures in the home without great cost or serious risk of fire-two difficulties that have so far blocked all attempts toward "Every Home Its Own Hollywood" Robert J. Flaherty, producer of Nanook of the North, sailed for the South Seas to film Samoan life and customs before the natives start charging a couvert-charge for their own variety...
...official statement from the Attorney General's office declared that " the prosecution is reluctantly obliged to admit justice cannot be obtained in Williamson county. No impartial jury can be obtained to try the men responsible. Witnesses, reliable and trustworthy, at great risk of personal violence, have courageously testified to what they beheld on that fatal day, only to be impeached by witnesses who plainly were interested in the defense and who clearly were testifying falsely...
Similarly one can never be sure of what will happen, next in a detective play, but as it lasts only a few hours instead of a lifetime the risk is not so great. However, in the case of "Cornered", at the St. James, from which the above quotation is made, the venture is moderately successful...
...forbear to rise and risk...
...game to be both eligible and chosen as a university player. Already this player has counted off at another college one of his three years of eligibility. when (and if) he becomes eligible in his new university, his patron must continue to support him, incidentally running the risk of discovery throughout the entire period of his benefactions. The accepted evidence that athletes are hired under these conditions bears fresh witness to human folly...