Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cuts with the personnel notes," says one editor. "When we stopped, readership of the column went up." But the Journal is long on charts, graphs and maps. By aiming at the Main Streets of the U.S. as well as at Wall Street, its editors think they have distributed the risk in case of another depression. "Financial people are nice people, and all that," says Kilgore, "but there aren't enough of them to make this paper...
...those who did, Harvard was the overwhelming favorite,† followed, at a respectful distance, by Yale, West Point and Princeton. The average genius was widely traveled, domestically inclined. Only 65 of the thousand were single. As Insurance Man Bowerman undoubtedly noted, the average genius was a good life-insurance risk, dying at a ripe...
There was risk in the strategy. There was risk in coming out into the open from the safety of Albany. But Dewey was well aware of the old suspicion in the West that Tom Dewey was just a little too fluent, a little too much the slick Easterner, that actually he was as ardent an advocate of Big Government as any New Dealer. He had to wipe out those suspicions...
...rehabilitation of Europe a gigantic international planned economy. The plan has two great advantages even from the most narrow, selfish point of view. It would bring into play in the battle for peace America's most powerful weapons--dollars and productive might; and it offers tremendous gains with negligible risk...
Pechet added that a House Committee poll a few years ago showed that the majority of the men favored the wearing of coats rather than run the risk of diners appearing in clothes worn immediately before athletic activities...