Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confiscation of property--one of the most difficult problems that the Genoa conference is now facing. It is beyond reason to expect American shippers to reestablish trade relations with Russia with the Bolshevist blockade still in operation. Russia has nothing to offer, her credit is no good, and the risk incurred by the shipper is too great...
...employed the method of experiment and observation. Life after death is not proved scientifically, any more than it has been disproved. Among the majority of those who are its present advocates, conviction rests chiefly upon belief and a species of intuition. But as yet few psychologists are willing to risk their reputations by definitely announcing proof, for which they have up to the present found no basis. And until the experts in the peculiarities of the mind, conscious and subconscious, find proof irrefutable, all the layman can do is maintain an unprejudiced attitude...
...permanent vacation with a record such as this. But it is not! Its doors shake violently during the between-classes rush. It is made of the best of fuels--thoroughly dried and seasoned wood. Its pathetic but nevertheless cleverly concealed fire-escapes are hopeless. Most people would rather risk the stairways. One thing however, may be said for the construction. The main staircase is wide. And part of the descent, although not the important part, has an additional stairway. Apparently the architects forgot that in case of a fire, the "last lap", between the first and second floors, would...
...attending college, have already richer opportunties of association with life in the world about them. Many men have lost the chance of becoming great artists by going to college, and as the situation now stands no man with a brilliant genius for creative artistry should run so grave a risk of hampering his chances for a successful dramatic career as to attend college...
...with a brilliant genius for creative artistry should run so grave a risk of hampering his chances for a successful dramatic career as to attend college". In these words Mr. Walter Prichard Eaton, in another column of this issue phrases one of the most striking condemnations of the most striking condemnation of the American College ever uttered. The cultural background and intellectual interests which are essential to the dramatist, he finds lacking in the ordinary college graduate. Inasmuch as the latter is expected to have acquired both of these as a result of his college course, it would seem...