Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good morning to you!" said the Minister of Public Instruction and Art. With his finger and thumb he plucked an immensely valuable statuet from his pocket and waggled it under the curator's nose. "To teach you a lesson I run the risk of arrest as a thief. It is possible to walk into this museum as easily as into a mill. I was stopped by no one. I paid no admission. I could have filled my pockets with loot...
Although Holy Cross looms up as the Crimson's strongest opponent in the near future, Coach Casey will risk everything to keep up his clean record this afternoon. In spite of the fact that the Crusaders sustained a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth a couple of weeks ago, their recent crushing victory over an undefeated Brown team gives them a higher rating than their erstwhile conquerors. Both the Crusaders and Elis are laying up for the best Harvard eleven that has been seen in years. Holy Cross will start its second string lineup against Duquesne this afternoon, although...
...Judge Wilkerson was less severe than he might have been, he was running no risk of ambiguity. Patiently he explained : that Snorkey's sentence of six months for contempt of court, which he has not yet served, might run concurrently with the felony sentences, so that Snorkey would not have to serve more than eleven years; but, in case a higher court overruled his sentence on the three felony counts, thereby cutting ten years from the sentences, the two misdemeanor sentences and the sentence for contempt must be served consecutively. Thus Judge Wilkerson made as sure as possible that...
...sportsman's life is inevitably connected with risk. Often it is the risk itself that makes the particular event attractive to stout hearted men. But a true lover of the game is never fool-hardy, he never invites that risk. When mere chance then converts hard play into a fatal injury men pause to praise the play that cost him life and damn the fate that robbed...
...Nanking. Then in Nanking arrived British Minister Sir Miles Lampson and U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson with his bride. Chinese who had fled at once came back. The Japanese war boats in the harbor would not fire, figured the Chinese, so long as there was any risk of hitting Sir Miles or the Johnsons, bride & groom...