Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state championship will be at stake tomorrow afternoon when the University squash team meets the outfit from the Boston Athletic Association at 2.30 o'clock on the University Squash courts. The two squads are now tied for first place and tomorrow's contest is the last on the schedule...
...Amendment is affected by all laws and rulings concerning the rights of aliens; consequently when an Hungarian countess famous for her supposed revolutionary proclivities is denied her passports, the fact is not of importance only to her American friends and sympathizers; a principle of general social interest is at stake. The safety of "that Government which is the greatest heritage any people ever had" is far more bound up with the existence of a healthy flow of free opinion than with the presence or absence of a few "dangerous aliens" who would never have received notice had not their arrival...
...point concerning the statements for which he is on trial for "insulting" the Army and Navy. They did not succeed in drawing from him any very damaging admissions; he stuck to his story, which was not difficult to do since mostly matters of opinion and inference were at stake. Examples of the testimony...
...health, lighted with an inextinguishable flame. Rising he cried: "Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these frontiers are in any way placed at stake, I would ask the King to draw his sword...
...Upshot, as is usual in these investigations, was nothing proved for or against physical manifestation from the spirit world. Scientists are not prepared to stake their reputations upon the slim data at hand; mediums, however honest, become hipped on their powers...