Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot himself; she still felt responsible. When she was beginning to get over it she met Michael and they fell in love. Before they had progressed very far she discovered that his possessiveness was developing into jealousy too much like her first husband's. She could not risk another tragedy: they broke up. On a month's business trip in Scandinavia Michael took stock of himself, discovered his jealousy was a mixture of vanity and inferiority, resigned himself to having lost Catherine for good. When he wrote her a friendly letter, not expecting to see her again...
...Express Corp., a new all-merchandise service between New York and Los Angeles, was supposed to begin service Dec. 12 (TIME, Dec. 12). On that night blizzards raged. Rather than risk an inauspicious start the company waited for good weather, finally got into the air Dec. 18. In its first 30 days operation, bad weather forced it to cancel seven flights east bound, nine westbound...
...Wallace Crane, wife of the president of the Hamilton National Bank, shoots a man who comes to see her at her Park Avenue apartment. Margot Hale, an actress, decides to shield her friend, even at the risk of ruining her career. An ambitious playwright, Philip Elton, finds the situation almost identical with the circumstances at the climax of a play he is reading to Miss Hale. The obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses...
...eliminating all civil disability payments to veterans. ¶ $125,000,000 by eliminating all payments made on the legal presumption that every disability prior to Jan. 1, 1925 was connected with the War. ¶ $40,000,000 by barring reinstatement of lapsed war risk insurance. ¶ $42,000,000 by limiting hospitalization to veterans actually injured in service. ¶ $7,000,000 by eliminating retirement pay to disabled emergency officers. ¶ $30,000,000 in administrative savings...
...airships of which No 6 won the 100,000-franc Deutsche prize for the first flight around the Eiffel Tower. His airships solved one by one the problems of shrinking & expanding gas, buckling, lateral balance. Then he moved on to heavier-than-air machines. He never hesitated to risk his life on any of his contraptions, crashed all over France with impunity until 1909 when he was badly hurt, decided he had played out his luck. A pre-WTar Paris sight was his baby blimp moored to the balcony of his house whence he stepped into its tiny gondola, sailed...