Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more important that every student should be made to see the light. If impossible to convince them that ghost writing is unethical, then it is necessary to show them its impracticality and risk. Correctors should check up every unusual reference (the suspicious attitude is unfortunate but necessary), and by this vigilance and by the severity of the punishment inflicted, they should fill the hearts of would-be wrongdoers with great doubts. Moreover, professors should be wary of assigning the same essay topics several years in a row, because stacks of ancient essays have a habit of developing...
...Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate our action? When they launched anathema against governments before whom we found ourselves in perilous negotiation, did they not risk hindering it and precipitating...
...Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, offered to risk his skin. Dr. Moran slit a strip of skin 16 inches long, half-inch wide, from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into a narrow tube, attached the upper end of the tube to Clara's body. He assumed that John's blood...
...person whose blood does not clot in three to six minutes is regarded by doctors as a poor surgical or obstetrical risk. No satisfactory chemical is known which will shorten the coagulation time of bleeders, but in last week's Science Dr. Aaron Lee Lichtman and Physiologist William Harold Chambers of Cornell University Medical College announced the discovery of a new compound which greatly reduces the clotting period in animals...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...