Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Crowther, business writer and investigator for the Saturday Evening Post. His major thesis: the prosperity of the past decade was due to Prohibition. His prime evidence: statements solicited from Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison, who, unlike Pierre Samuel du Pont and William Wallace Atterbury, did not risk the ordeal of crossexamination by personal appearance before the committee...
...regard to the management of the disarmament conference. Undergraduate publications in practically all American colleges bear witness to an interest in other problems of national and world significance. If in the face of these facts Dr. Meiklejohn still insists on the indifference of the students, he will run the risk of becoming a male Cassandra, prophet only of evil...
Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench. "There seems to be no doubt," said Bailiff Bell, "that there has been a direct contravention of the Clameur de Haro. There was risk of a serious breach of the peace by virtue of the accused's behavior. I am obliged, therefore, to fine him the nominal sum of one shilling...
...field, and to remove in some degree the uncertainty which faces the Senior upon his entrance into the outside world. Added to these are the benefits which accrue to the employers and companies who cooperate in the plan; advance knowledge of a graduate's capabilities, and removal of the risk in selecting men, many of--whom later prove to be a disappointment and a burden...
Robert A. Carter, 32-year-old hack writer of Larchmont, N. Y., hit upon a sure-fire plan for getting stories published and paid for. Unwilling to risk the unsure rewards of grinding out adventure tales for paper pulp magazines, mailing and re-mailing them to apathetic editors, he decided to model his compositions after successful stories already printed. Not only did he set about copying them as to sense, but as to content, letter perfect...