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Word: risked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongues of Mayor Hague's enemies clacked. He had, they said again, transferred his wealth to England where he has a house (TIME, May 27). He would, they predicted, never return to the U. S. to risk the outcome of a U. S. Supreme Court verdict such as Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair received for refusing to answer the U. S. Senate. But he said: "I'll be back this fall. . . . I'll never retire from politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exit Hague | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Passport or no passport, dismayed Soviet officials would not risk keeping Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell in Russia. They bundled her out, permitted Morgan- Niece Ingalls to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Labor. The striking spinners and weavers were not watching economic trends last week. Mostly they acted as though the strike were a holiday. Thousands swarmed merrily down to seaside resorts, splashed, dived, basked. It was in the stuffy offices of Lancashire mills that grave-faced executives sweated over the risk of crippling sales losses abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cotton Crisis | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...into heated cabins or cockpits and talking to somebody on the ground over the radiophone." Thus re-pined E. Hamilton Lee, 37, who flew the first experimental air mail routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed 1,000,000 miles of flying. He works for Boeing Air Transport, most of whose pilots were previously in the difficult Air Mail Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer to the plaintiff, despite the adroit generalizations used, and because a publication is made at the publisher's peril and risk, the motion is denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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