Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bribe or Bait? Ostentatiously humdrum in style, the two sentences italicized above were in fact the sensational nub of the King-Emperor's speech: the Labor Party's speech. The first pledges Scot MacDonald to risk the very life of his Labor Cabinet by asking Parliament to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, which was passed to prevent a recurrence of Great Britain's paralyzing "General Strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24, 1926). It has generally been expected that the Liberal Party would side against the Labor Cabinet on this issue and thus produce the Cabinet...
...books by the last British Government (that of Conservative Stanley Baldwin) this act was designed to prevent a recurrence of the British general strike (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.), is detested by every Laborite. Clamor within the party has finally forced Laborite MacDonald to seek its repeal, to risk almost certain defeat on the one issue on which the Liberals, who hold the balance of power in Parliament, may be expected to vote against...
What then are the principles of this art of watching football games? In the first place, you must watch players individually if you are going to find out how they are playing. In so doing you run the risk of missing the trend of the play, for you may find that the man you have picked out for scrutiny has ended up somewhere a half a mile west of the final pile-up. If you watch the same man on a number of successive plays, however, you are pretty sure to get some idea of how he is conducting himself...
...entire squad had an easy workout today, Coach Sasse wanting to risk no further injury to his already crippled band of players. The plebes put on some Harvard plays for the benefit of the first eleven but the regulars put up no defense against them. Yesterday the plebes scored three touchdowns on the first team using Harvard plays...
...risk of incurring the editorial ire or the CRIMSON for not living in Lowell House and for having missed both of the recent Monday Evening Affairs, I want to append a note to the "Press" of this morning's issue. Possibly it is not polite to ask how many CRIMSON editors have "attended a High Table"; or to point out that in the opinion or many of those not of the press world, the CRIMSON has a better "Instinctive feeling" for knowing when "something ought to be said" than for knowing how to say it. The result is the rather...