Word: stake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both eights went out for a short workout in the morning. This afternoon Coach Brown sent his jayvee oarsmen down to the three mile stake. The return trip to the Boat House was made in several easy stages...
Census: The ordinary Senator or Congressman of the party in power is interested in counting U. S. noses every decade because of the patronage he expects to get out of it. Some 100,000 jobs are at stake...
...Belgium, voting is compulsory. That is why, in a nation of 7,744,000 people, some 2,500,000 votes were cast last week in a little-noticed general Belgian election.* The event drew small attention because there was very little at stake. M. Henri Jaspar is still prime minister. In the central legislature, the greatest gain in seats was made by the Liberal party, which had encouraged closer relations with France and opposed the liquor laws forbidding the drinking of hard liquor in public. To win voters from Antwerp and Brussels, notorious amateurs of fine Burgundy, the Liberals promised...
...title at stake is usually necessary nowadays to make a prizefight notable. Weight and power are usually necessary to make a fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...
There will be three points at stake tomorrow for each of the two foursomes. Two of these counters will go to the winners of the singles matches, and the third will fall to the team-mates winning the four-ball foursome...