Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business leaders who have the largest stake in law observance publicly and privately violate this law and countenance its violation by others. Instead of using their wealth and influence to create public opinion demanding law enforcement, our business men of character and position are the chief support of the master criminal class, the bootlegger...
...Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals to two Arab chiefs for aid, and finds that one of them is his long-lost brother in disguise. Moreover, the two of them are Geste's Buddy and Hank. Third coincidence: with Geste's life at stake, Otis had promised to marry a half-caste dancing girl. Honor-bound to keep his loathful promise, he is on the verge of marriage when he discovers her to be his half-sister. With such luck the end cannot but be happy-and the surviving Geste still survives...
...Business leaders, who have the largest stake in law observance, set the example of law defiance...
...compounds were prepared under the direction of Professor A. B. Loevenhart of Wisconsin. He believes the conquest of African sleeping sickness would be equivalent to the discovery of a continent. But more than Africa is at stake. Before the War the tsetse fly was unknown in Arabia; in recent years it has turned up there. Also strange new diseases of camels have developed in Palestine, similar to sleeping sickness; caused by trypanosomes. Finally, laymen are startled when Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas tells them that: "In prehistoric times this fly lived in the Americas and fossils of some twenty-odd species have...
Upwards of 40 men felt that they had an advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language and a fairly good knowledge of another. Many of these admitted that they were either concentrating in modern languages or that they were honor students. About an equal number were willing to stake themselves on an adequate knowledge of one language but confessed to ignorance of a second. A few said that they knew both French and German slightly but neither well enough to read them with ease or pleasure. At least a dozen of the Seniors interviewed declared that their linguistic capacities...