Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, let us risk it. Let us declare positively that this particular "Bok of Danish Verse" is different. What the exigencies of text and interpretation may have been, we do not know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that...
...people. He has been doing so ever since, when Governor of Wisconsin, when drafting platforms for the Republican party, and seeing them rejected. Now he is startling Congress by his liberal progressive bloc, not the germ of a third party, for La Follette is too old a master to risk his neck on that horse again, but as a reform movement within the Republican party...
...Father Spaulding Harold Chase did an especially fine piece of work, so fine that it ran risk of escaping notice by reason of its very restraint. Mark Kent made a ruthless and unscrupulous financier, yet with an almost superstitious reverence for the letter of the law. Walter Gilbert's lawbreaker was more than characteristically good; and, playing with unusual reserve, Miss Roach, as the banker's daughter with a penchant for reform, had well-deserved success. And Evata Nudsen made a really charming Gold-digger, perhaps over vociferous at times, perhaps too frequent and vehement in her assertions that...
...government provides for the election, by the people, of a few men whom they can trust to administer their government efficiently. The representatives are meant to apply their time, knowledge, and experience in appropriate legislation and administration. A congressman who is swayed by personal interest, who dares not to risk his chances of re-election for the measures that are best for his country, is betraying his trust. But it seems that something very like breach of trust is the order of the day, for representatives, when an organized few threaten them with failure at the next election, immediately bury...
Parking of cars in the space near Warren House, the Varsity Club, and the Union is also considered dangerous due to the fire risk...