Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honors to themselves as they trudge through several thousand feet of film which broke at odd intervals throughout the evening. Clark it seems had had an unlucky break in his first marriage so, although he loved Joan very much and she loved him, he would not run the risk of a second flasco. They therefore settle upon a very satisfactory, if unoriginal method of solving what, save in Hollywood, is a very perplexing problem. But the full tide of true love is turned back by the flotsam of New York politics--as occasionally happens--and Joan proves her love...
...Sherman Conrad's, and then by a thing called "Opening of A Long Poem (Maybe)" by James Agee. Over this entry the well laid schemes of apportionment went to pieces, and any editor might well wonder what to do with the remainder of a magazine which had decided to risk publication of Mr. Agee's opus. The poem is frankly an imitation--I will not say a copy--of Byron's "Don Juan", using the same verse form and employing the same tricks and devices...
...remove the wooden paneling which conceals heavy brick walls on three sides of the hall. The wooden beams which support the roof will be replaced by steel beams, and, taking the present stone floor into consideration, the room will be rendered almost completely free from a fire risk by the alterations...
...different "group." Wrestlers in Japan recently divided themselves into two factions in order to make more money. Professional wrestlers in the U. S. are segregated, for similar reasons, into three loosely organized troupes. Each is controlled by a promoter who sees to it that his best performers do not risk prestige or popularity by wrestling against able members of a rival group. Each has a claimant to the world's championship, several more or less high-grade contenders for it. De Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest...
...trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly. U. S. turfmen expected that because of Phar Lap's prestige this method of training might gain popularity; that because of his death, owners of notable racehorses might be reluctant to risk sending them abroad...