Word: risking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...British Admiralty which, in November, 1914, took the initiative in debarring the citizens of neutral nations from a portion of the European waters by setting aside a zone in the North Sea which, having been strewn with mines, neutrals were informed they would enter at their own risk? Suppose an American merchant vessel or passenger liner should decline to submit to such dictation, or, while engaged in non-contraband trade, en route for Hamburg or Bremen, or for some neutral European port, refused to regard the warning shot fired from a British vessel intent on its capture. In either case...
...Furthermore, where the shorter distances are rowed, two or three races a season or more can be undertaken without risk of injury, and the increase in the number of competitions will add to the pleasure and recreational character of the sport...
Tickets for this recital, at one doll 50 cents and 25 cents each, are now sale at Amee Brothers Bookstore, H risk's and at the Music Building...
Townsend, who enlisted as a volunteer in March, 1915, had never hesitated to risk his life, and had been of the greatest assistance in directing the retirement of the wounded under continual fire of the enemy. He was designated in the citation as "brave, loyal and of rare modesty...
Showing a versatile attack and an impregnable defence, Brown was able to decisively defeat Yale Saturday by a 21 to 6 score. But this defeat cannot be regarded as a just criterion of Yale's true strength, for the latter team, unwilling to risk its regulars, used eighteen players in the contest. These second-string men, however, were no match for the fast Brown aggregation, when open play was started...