Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out that the Public Works Administration was willing, even eager to lend money, that service rates would be lower since the plants would not operate for profit. Those in favor of private ownership declared just as loudly that the cities, already in financial straits, could not afford to risk deficits in the utility business; that though rates might be lower, city treasuries would sharply miss the taxes now levied on privately-owned plants. After last week's voting, neither side could claim a national victory, but both had things to cheer...
...value of flaunting pacifistic erudition in the faces of the denizens of Boston Common might also be considered. It might even be possible to see in the Club's refulgent project a bid for publicity, which could very nicely be gained merely by suggesting the scheme without running the risk of putting it into practice. But when it is remembered that these few febrile souls are not backed by the Club's officials, little else is to the point. So far as these independent members are concerned, at least, one may borrow a phrase from Saki, and say: pacifists...
...present time a virtual impossibility and between the prestige of Geneva and the need for Hitler's reentry to international grace there is small choice. Stress the instrument to make that reenter possible; if France and Great Britain reject it, they must do so at a risk which, in the long run, would be unwise to take. POLLUX...
...Risk there was none. The Department of Justice on Sept. 10 had ruled that, although the 18th Amendment remains on the statute books until 36 States ratify the 21st, "no prosecutions will be instituted . . . provided the 'if and when' clause as a condition precedent to Repeal is made specific." The Post Office Department also winked, agreed to deliver mailed copies of the advertisement because "something is contemplated which is not yet legal in fact, and therefore a legal impossibility...
...squeezed in by Washington in the fourth but not one Senator had yet hit one of Hubbell's pitches squarely by the seventh inning when a few confident Giant fans started home. By so doing they spared themselves the risk of apoplexy in the eighth and ninth. Hubbell walked two men. Myer knocked a hot grounder to Shortstop "Blondy" Ryan. Ryan juggled it and then, without waiting to get hold of the ball, batted it three yards with the flat of his hand to Critz at second base, nailing the runner from first. Next up was old "Goose" Goslin...