Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very grave risk. . . . He asked me if I knew about the events of November. I said that I did. He asked me if I had talked to George Whitney about it. I said that I had. Then he mentioned the unfortunate episode of Greer [a broker who was declared mentally incompetent last year...
...winning Germany and other powers back to European cooperation, possibly in some new form, but also we should be doing something against which we have always worked, namely, the division of Europe into blocs formally ranged against one another and which in our view must greatly aggravate the risk of ultimate catastrophe...
...astute Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, had in masterly fashion secured both high U. S. Democratic and high U. S. Republican sponsorship for cutting out some 25 U. S. presentations. Sir Sidney is cutting out enormously greater numbers of presentations of British women, but that he can do without risk-whereas His Majesty's Government have been most wary of antagonizing any potent U. S. tycoons, wives & daughters...
Several months ago Soviet papers factually reported such a misfortune as Arctic scientists constantly risk in their perilous lives: unpredictably heavy ice at the beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept...
Monsignor Michael Cline: "Life suffers more from monotony than from adventure. Risk is only censurable when it is too big for the one who undertakes it. ... The lady in question failed to draw the line between a legitimate risk and a foolhardy plunge. ... My opinion of the lady is that expressed by Wordsworth: All too good for human nature's daily food...