Word: affrights
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...Affright and desolate the land...
...enough to cause fore-bodings. Throughout the address, references to scholarship, research, and similar subjects sounded a distinct overtone. Such allusions may point the way to a gradual, almost imperceptible shifting of academic emphasis from the teacher to the pure scholar, a shift which, if violent enough, might well affright the student. No one, to be sure, denies the value and inspiration inherent in the words of a great scholar and discoverer, or even in the more sight of his accomplishments at first hand. Where this inspiration is most felt, however, is at the hand of the scholar...
...notorious reputation of English A1 must have spread beyond the confines of Cambridge to affright prospective Freshmen. This year sees 170 of the class of 1933 allowed to pursue more interesting fields of knowledge, while their more unfortunate classmates are subjected to the pressure of the educational machine, which is supposed in this particular instance, to turn out the enlightened English student...
Imperialist Bruce. Such lack of enthusiasm for the Empire, such emphasis upon the Commonwealth, naturally displeased Premier Bruce. His Australia, with but 5,000,000 population, looks with affright at teeming Japan and for protection to a well-knit Empire. Therefore Premier Bruce declared with emphasis to the press...
...parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical values. It is a book which need not affright the intellectually lazy: it is a book which to the intellectually wearied may provide keen relaxation...