Word: risks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk makers fear to risk anti-trust proceedings by agreements to restrict production, and cannot agree among themselves on tariff protection, the overproduction problem seems far from a solution. Hosiery manufacturers (who consume about 50% of silk used in the U. S.) have accumulated enough silk to last for some months, and are not greatly in the market at present prices...
...order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared that the chief thing all these assembled Excellencies wished to accomplish was the avoidance of controversial subjects. They positively dared not risk having debates of any heat for fear of warming up international animosities likely to disrupt the work of the Second Dawes Committee at Paris (see above) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan. As a result of this ticklish situation- with billions in the balance-the achievements...
Almost nobody is too poor to play in the State Lottery at Naples which is drawn every week. Though a very beggar may have but 50 centesimi (2½?), one of the 150 state banks will let him risk his all. Shoals of poor people win petty sums every week. But naturally the most stupendous prizes-paid on luckiest combinations of lucky numbers-turn up only once or twice in a decade. Six years ago $2,000,000 was won on the series 8, 65, 90, and ever since, with a peculiar fatalism, thousands of people in Southern Italy have...
...this revival of the feudal method of allowing the church to control student thought is but a diplomatic gesture, there must be some unknown aspects of the question to necessitate taking such a risk. All of the achievements of this generation will be destroyed at the death of those who are responsible for them if the education of the coming citizens of Italy is allowed to be controlled by the antedated system of religious policy. Religion is moral, while education is intellectual, and an attempted combination of the two results in stagnation...
...ticket of admission to this field of scholarship in the Senior year is a passing grade in the written divisional examination the year before. It is just here that the proponents of the plan run a risk they have hoped to avoid, the magnifying beyond reason of the examination as such. The examination becomes something to be passed, a qualifying round to be met in the most feasible and expedient manner, for the privilege of attempting another, more specialized, task...