Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writen a few books and I've made a few explorations, but I'd rather stake my chance of being remembered on the unwritten books of your minds." With these words and quotations from Kipling and Jacob, Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, brought to a close his last lecture at Harvard...
...market in which there is such an enormous public interest-in which not only 300,000 small traders but 10,000,000 investors have a stake, it is essential that no element of the Casino be allowed to intrude and that all such elements be obliterated...
Mindful that pacifists have pointed warningly to the great stake of the U. S. churches in China, to the possibility that churches may be inclined to put pressure on the Government to look out for their interests, Executive Secretaries Dr. Ralph Eugene ("Diff") Diffendorfer and Dr. William Edward Shaw of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions told the Chicago meeting that Methodist missionaries "have agreed that no personal or property damage that may be incurred by their presence in China is to be made a cause for war threat or indemnity demand...
...Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate Jeremiah T. Mahoney as it had in Fusionist LaGuardia...
Adams and Dudley square off on Soldiers Field this afternoon in the final game of the 1937 House season. Only second division changes in the standing are at stake, however, since neither the Goldcoasters nor the Commuters can rise above sixth place by winning...