Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulwark of international capitalism, chief stake of diplomacy in backward countries, cause of war, seems destined to become more and more the great motivating factor of American foreign policy. Free competition has long since been abolished, and the struggle for wells, spheres of exploitation, areas of monopoly, and markets is becoming more bitter and more fraught with intrigue, discrimination, tariffs, and embargoes...
...wish to instigate war, but in view of the present realities we cannot deny the truth of Schiller's words: 'The most peaceful person cannot live in peace if a wicked neighbor does not wish it, and the nation is unworthy that does not stake everything upon its honor.'" Hindenberg concluded his oration by paying a warm tribute to the loyalty of the workers in the Ruhr and exhorting his hearers to stick by the Vaterland "especially in these difficult times...
...Schwab, on graduating from St. Francis College, entered the steel business as a stake driver on the Edgar Thompson Steel Works' surveying corps. During the next twenty years he rose rapidly to the positions of superintendent, and then Preident of the Carnegie Steel Company. After two years as President of the U. S. Steel Corporation, he became chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which office he held for eighteen years. He was also director of many other large companies, and from April to December, 1918, was Director-General of shipbuilding, U. S. Shipping Board, Emergency...
...answer comes from A. E. Crawley, an English authority. Tennis, it seems, was invented about 1200 when the usual arithmetical unit was sixty, because it was so conveniently divisible--this was before the use of decimals. It was always played for a stake, usually a crown (60 sous) per game of four strokes. Thus the winner of the first stroke was the recipient of 15 sous from his opponent. If he was a good player he won 30, then 45 (this number is still used in France to some extent) and finally sixty (our game...
...support of the government in its attempts to quell disorders, and practically all the farmers are of Dutch descent. The Dutch nationals are essentially peace-loving, and though in no way connected with the governmental faction, invariably rally to its support when law and order is at stake...