Word: stakingly
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...stroke was bold and probably judicious. For months the rival factions in the Chamber have played party politics while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...
...largest official stake ever offered for a professional golf match...
...which is called the "pot." Those who do this are then privileged (but not required) to call on the dealer for from one to five cards more, after having discarded an equal number. All hold their cards concealed. The player at the dealer's left then places a stake in the pot. In clockwise order, according to the value which they set by their cards, the players in order may then place an equal or a greater number of chips in the pot. Any player may at any time refuse to place more chips in the pot, thereby forfeiting...
...Allen Forbes, it was announced last nights has donated individual prizes for the members of the winning team this afternoon. There will be nothing at stake at Myopia but guardianship of the famous intercollegiate trophy will depend on the team's success at Rye. Alexander White, '28, veteran of last year's champion four, will not be able to play in the first game against Princeton, but he is expected to be eligible after the opening contest, and his spectacular playing last year will make Harvard a favorite to repeat if the first obstacle is successfully overcome...
...part of a two-day program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed- a shepherd dog with ten woolly charges, a circus of Pomeranians, high-jumping hounds, racing police dogs- but the whippets had a world's championship at stake and their fleet heats monopolized the interest of the tens of thousands of spectators...