Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East is a war, he would be obliged to apply to it the provisions of the rickety Neutrality Act. Therefore, in explaining to the press why all 7,780 Americans in China had been warned to get out as fast as possible or stay at their own risk, he described the Sino-Japanese situation not as a war, but as an awful mess. As to applying the Neutrality Act, the President was still on a 24-hour basis...
Vacationing Pennsylvania Governor George Howard Earle & wife flew from London to Dublin on different airplanes. Explained Governor Earle, "It would be bad enough if our four boys lost one of their parents, but we didn't think it would be fair to run the risk of them losing both...
...waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee's meters, soon added 348 more. When indignant citizens squawked, a district court ruled that "free use" of streets does not include parking, which is a privilege granted by the municipality...
...situations are called to my attention wherein it is impossible to buy or sell reasonable amounts of stock at reasonable prices. Orders which, a few years ago, could have been executed within a few minutes or a few hours now often require days and sometimes weeks, with resulting increased risk to the owner...
...ignorantly. Another objection to Sulfanilamide is the fact that its toxicity is not known. After curing some people of blood poisoning, it seems to have caused agranulocytosis (a dangerous deficiency of white blood cells). When a doctor must decide between blood poisoning which is killing his patient or the risk of causing agranulocytosis, however, the choice is simple. That Sulfanilamide is being abused, no doctor doubts. In Manila, men are using it instead of tried-&-true chemical or mechanical prophylactics against venereal disease, reverting to the traditional, false notion that an attack of gonorrhea is "no worse than...