Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auditorium and outdid himself. Said he: "I come as a miner speaking to steel workers. ... I know what it is to go starving, what it is to go through 18 months of strike and to taste the bitter dregs of defeat. "I don't want you to risk a conflict when the odds are against us. It would set us back and we cannot afford to be set back. It is better at this time to observe the weight of sound judgment rather than the dictates of feeling. There is no more domineering, autocratic, dictorial and reprehensible group than...
...daughter and he has never known TIME, June 25, 1934 poverty. His domineering wife, an old-time singer, supports him when he says that there is no great glory in going to a pauper's grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk a gamble. Strauss's 70th birthday brought forth countless praises. But the tall, ruddy-cheeked old composer remained as detached and matter-of-fact as when he said years ago: "If my compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories...
...were office clerks with 92%. Various types of storekeepers ranked below clerks and just ahead of schoolteachers (85%) and railroad trainmen. Dentists (82%) and doctors (80%) were not far ahead of their nurses. Male factory workers ranked ahead of traveling salesmen (69%). Lawyers with 61% are as good a risk as female factory workers and only a shade better than auto mechanics, tenant farmers, brick masons and janitors. Policemen, firemen, track walkers and coal miners are all more honest than college students (56%), who are in about the same class as servants and carpenters. There is not much choice between...
...death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father, he met a crisis. to accept its resignation. And a young King can scarcely take that high-handed line. While the Queen groaned and her mother murmured Swedish prayers, the Premier decided to risk a vote of confidence on his program of deflation, reduced taxes and smaller dole payments. Vexed, a few Liberals split off from the Catholic-Liberal coalition and the Catholic Premier went down on the first bill by the narrow vote of 83 to 79. He sped to the Royal Palace, bent...
...given hour spent as a passenger-carrying pilot in scheduled air-transport operation is about 88 times more likely to result fatally than the same hour spent on the ground. Pilots who carry mail & express but no passengers run a risk about 95 times normal; Army & Navy pilots, 170 times normal; Marine pilots, 480 times normal...