Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenchmen: From the foreign land where a law of banishment cruelly detains me, I bow with sad emotion before the dead and wounded who, at the cost or the risk of their lives, accepted the challenge to probity and honor given by an unworthy Government in its panic-stricken impotence...
...loan for $10,000 and received $8,000 back from the R.F.C., the bank in question might pay four per cent for that loan, whereas the customer himself might be paying six per cent on the whole $10,000. In this way the bank would be reducing its risk and increasing its chance to make money on the loan. The bill declares that no more than 10 per cent of any loans can be used by the borrowers to pay debts to banks...
...International tinkering with exchange in the present state of uncertainty concerning American finance," snapped the spokesman, "would be useless - worse than useless! We must have a more substantial foundation than we have now on which to build any permanent relationship between American and British currencies. Otherwise we would risk entering into an unsound agreement which might be worse for both countries than the present situation...
...risk of being found sentimental, I dare confess that I think that teaching is a mission. We are not here merely to create other puny scholars in our own image, but to send out into life men who shall, in the words of Pericles, be most completely and most gracefully self-sufficient in the face of the most varied circumstances. I know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which...
...every taxpayer's return must be signed by the expert or lawyer, if any, who advised him in figuring his debt to the Treasury. Thus if arrant crockery is found, the lawyer responsible may be dis barred. Respectable lawyers will give their clients shyster advice only at the risk of their reputations. For this new tax wrinkle U. S. lawyers can thank Earle Bailie, partner in the banking house of J. & W. Seligman...