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Word: risked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the atmosphere had cleared, the Collegian's editors, whose names always appeared on the front page, found themselves in receipt of an order to stop publication or risk expulsion. Thus passed the Collegian...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Advocate Voice to be Heard Tomorrow as Three Year's Wartime Silence Comes to Overdue End | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...dangerous business to pile Pelion on Ossa in the field of critical praise, but it is a risk which must be taken in any appraisal of the Veterans Theater Workshop's production of "Saint Joan." Last night's performance involved some of the finest acting and most superb staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

...difficulties. If the British remembered F.D.R.'s remark that Douglas seemed more concerned with dollars than humanity, if they were concerned over his dislike for a controlled economy, they could stop worrying. Lew Douglas was an internationalist first, a "hardmoney" man second. Said he: "England is a good risk. But it will be a sorry, sorry day ultimately for this nation when we condition our loans solely on whether they are good risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Good Risk | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...that his business-a dying man's soul-is the really important issue. In his journey-toward-death, Johnny does encounter moments of compassion, but the charity is as shallow as the courage that goes with it: those who will not turn him over to the police will risk nothing for him, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...passing Golden's Contention that labor organizations are still in an "adolescent period" and need "Sympathetic alarm the growth of union "monopoly." "I don't ask the outlawing of strikes," he asserted. "All I say is Let's put the risk back in striking the risk that has been absent in our public policy since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Meet Debates Ways to Industrial Accord | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

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