Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch. By good fortune 15 children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles. The fifteenth had a mild attack...
Baltic Tapeworms. People who eat raw or inadequately cooked pickerel, wall-eyed pike or perch caught in lakes of the north central states risk infection by "broad" Baltic tapeworms, stated Dr. Thomas Byrd Magath of Rochester, Minn. Cooking or freezing kill the worm larvae which the fish harbor. Immigrants from Baltic countries first brought the worm to the U. S. Now in increasing numbers the U. S. is producing its own human verminaries...
...once it started, even he would not predict. Given fair weather all the way it could make the seven jumps in a week or ten days. But peasoup fogs boil up around Labrador, and General Balbo has flatly stated that he will turn back rather than foolishly risk a ship. Yet, if he decides to go ahead, he has no patience with a crew which fails to keep its plane where it belongs. His orders: "Arrive with the plane or don't arrive...
...Federal Securities Act (TIME, June 12) which even great A. T. & T., equipped with the best legal advice and famed for publicity of its operations, viewed with fear. Bell Securities will resume operations when and if it finds how it can do business under the law without undue risk...
Significance. There must always be a risk in buying or in selling a security. In the past, too much of the risk has been passed on to the buyer. The purpose of the Securities Act is obviously to place the largest part of the risk with the seller...