Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something he had not been asked to do this year. Last week there was lots of mud for the Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds. So convinced of Big John's prowess were rival owners that only five were willing to risk the $500 starting fee (day before) to match their hopefuls against the Woodward colt...
...vast number of Freshmen had three examinations over one weekend at mid-years, while some had as many as four. What does the University expect students with such exam schedules to do? Risk failing two out of their four courses, when they could pass by patronizing the Square tutoring schools? Theoretically, I suppose, students should be able to prepare themselves well enough ahead of time to meet any atrocious examination schedule. But, obviously, theory and practice do not always coincide...
...Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, new Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Of these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...
...risk insurance rates for marine commerce rose as high as $2 per $100 to China, $5 to Germany. Then war-risk insurance was discontinued entirely on shipments to Germany, Italy...
...risk of compromising its financial position, the Crimson has decided to have nothing more to do with this organized vice racket. It is necessary somehow to force the lids off the sewer holes, to shine the light of day on the putrefaction within. The University must be made to examine itself. For recognition of the amazing whole and its details can surely have only one result: steps toward extermination...