Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John L. Lewis' hands then lay the ticklish problem of whether to risk shaky U.A.W.'s equilibrium further by encouraging a convention that might either affirm or break Homer Martin's authority, or blast U.A.W. permanently...
...dance-floor, members of the University should not be deprived of this inter-House gaiety. The price, crowd, location, and general "collegiate" atmosphere of a Harvard "prom" would make such a dance repulsive to all but a very few. There would be the same notoriety, the same risk of financial loss, the same noise, the same unfortunate insults to officers of the University, the same whispers of scandal behind the purple panes of Beacon Hill as exist under the present system. And in addition the University would have admitted the failure of a large portion of the House Plan...
This application of the law of usury was a nasty jolt to Mississippi's cotton planters. It meant that henceforth they cannot charge more than legal interest on furnish unless they want to run the risk of supplying it free...
...like the oyster season, is restricted to months with an r in them. With only one more show, a musical, opening this season and with such hits as Hooray for What! and Of Mice and Men already closed, it was plain last week that few producers were running the risk of theatrical ptomaine. But 1937-38 was eupeptic. No really bad play landed on its feet, though several got passing marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further, it was a season...
...article on this useful subject, by Boston's Dr. Edward Benson Benedict, whose experience confirmed Dr. Ruddock's-that with a peritoneoscope he can make an accurate diagnosis of ailments within the abdomen in almost every case, whereas clinical diagnosis scores only 64%. However, peritoneoscopists will not risk prying into an inflamed abdomen...