Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most unfortunate of all, the apparent passage of the Critic will render any new attempt in this field increasingly difficult, since the past subscribers of that magazine would naturally be loath to risk their money on anew venture, and possible backing for another Fourth Publication could scarcely the expected to consider the precedent an suspicious omen for their hopes...
...rumors about the possibilities of a Habsburg putsch, of romantic airplane flights to claim the throne and so forth. The tragic outcome of Otto's father's experiments in that direction is warning enough for him. Empress Zita is equally determined not to let her son risk his luck as a royal adventurer. The family has never
...room was a steel tank big enough to hold a pony. It was lined with i.ooo Ib. of frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between - 100° and - 110° F. The spectators waited to see a black-browed young daredevil risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward Ridge wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum...
...come five seconds or five minutes sooner, Death would have cut short an extraordinary career. Daredevil Ridge, 28, has long been willing to risk Death for Science. Three years ago he appeared at a Boston airport, said he wanted to photograph a hotel, hired a cabin plane. In mid-flight the pilot looked back, saw that Ridge had put on a parachute, was ready to jump. He flipped the plane into a wingover that sent the would-be jumper sprawling to the floor, kept him there by repeated wingovers until he got back to port...
...employer wants to give his employees a price below the current market quotations in selling the company's own stock or if it is desired to give a bonus to deserving employees, can such a "favor" be given without running the risk of prosecution under proposed...