Word: risks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Senate: Public Opinion, XIV, 391 (Jan. 28, 1893); Bryce, op. cit. I, 101; Whitehill in Cong. Rec. April 22, 1891, p. 3658. (a) Nominations would be less likely to be secured by bribing: Arena X, p. 455 (Sept. 1894).- (1) Convention bribery less likely to be attempted.- (X) Risk of discovery greater.- (A) More persons to be approached.- (B) Longer interval before election during which attention is paid to circumstances of nomination.- (2) Competitive bribery less likely to succeed.- (X) Bribes offered much smaller.- (A) Convention nomination worth less.- (B) Single vote in convention of less importance than single vote...
...three great characteristics of this school are: a strong love of life combined with a coolness of observing our surroundings; clearness combined with an idea of the unity of things; and a cautious sense of human fallibility in philosophic speculation combined with the willingness to run the risk of blundering. The one great feature of Guyau's speculation is his fearlessness. He does not immediately fear that he may be wrong but he "lets himself go" until he has reached his conclusion...
...President's message is bad as to its manner of laying down the policy for this particular case.- (a) Risk of war is unnecessarily increased.- (1) Threat of war in advance of commission's finding served no purpose.- (x) War could have been threatened after the finding: A. Carnegie in No. Am. Rev. Vol. 162 p. 135 (Feb. 1896).- (2) Threat of war in advance made peacable accommodation more difficult.- (x) Made it harder for England to yield: C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 28, 1895, p. 1232; ibid...
...with brutality. It has been shown that a high grade of team work can be developed without the hard spring and summer practice, and that the game loses none of its interest either for spectators or for players because it is played in a gentlemanly way and without excessive risk...
...unusually low. My batch of fifty briefs was the poorest I have seen in a long while. I have been obliged to give fifteen E's, and if these men do not, in every case show a marked improvement before the end of the year they run a decided risk of failing to pass the course. If the trouble were confined to the 1.30 section I would be led to think it due to the bad acoustic properties of this room (Fogg Lecture Room). As the matter stands, however, this cannot be the case, for the trouble is widespread...