Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nakamura failed to enthuse over the matter of noses, said it would be "a feverish business," to risk insulting practically every parent in Nippon. Though the project fell through, some credit should be given Writers Haight and Jones for their pioneer work in the movement...
Does anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...
Last week, too, the U. S. Bureau of Standards announced that its Lauriston S. Taylor had developed an apparatus to standardize the measurement of the intensity of X-rays, so that a radiologist need no longer risk burning patients needlessly or dangerously...
...York Times: "I had planned this flight [via Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Canada] for two years, but I did not tell Zimmer and Franz and Fritz until we reached Iceland because I did not wish the authorities to find out. . . . They would have stopped me because of the risk and other things, and so I just went. One must have some daring if one is to live one's dreams...
...reprinting an article from the Journal of Preventive Medicine. Between 1921 and 1927, the period of the study, the accident death rate increased decidedly for both males and females, except in the cases of boys below 15 and girls below 5. Except for the very old, women have less risk than men, about one-third as much. A tabulation...