Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They are so afraid of criticism that they discriminate against athletes as though they were all brainless chumps who had no right to be educated. Is there anything wrong with giving a few athletes an education...
Besides this criticism of capitalism in its present state, Professor Rogers adds five other reasons for the existence of our nine-year business dive. The freezing of capital by banks which are afraid to invest in business enterprises is a contributing factor to the reluctance of industrialists in maintaining and increasing output. Related to both of these evils is the current mutual antagonism between business and the administration, which Professor Rogers cites as another guarantee of a long depression...
Last week it appeared that his dream of publishing a book of Foxy drawings would not come true. Doctors at Manhattan's St. Vincent's Hospital ordered him to bed, announced his 72-year-old heart was ailing. Said he: "Foxy was never afraid of anything. Neither...
Commissioners were concerned, however, with the present shortage of women fit to be mates of prospective Makerere alumni. Afraid that tribal wenches may undo the effects of higher education, the Commission suggested that facilities for giving a sound secondary school education to a limited number of young females be immediately provided. When this provision has been made, students at Makerere will be advised to marry during their college careers. Reason: "To preserve their morals...
...release of subconscious insight such as Francine's was found in other patients at a certain stage. ''Schizophrenics sometimes cling to reality just in the moment when, because of their disease, they are afraid of losing it completely," Dr. Bender said. "Then they see more than the normal person, who does not always appreciate what he has in this world." Most sane and able artists professionally see "more than the normal person," and in this, as in what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from...