Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction." But he was always afraid he was going to be found out. So the poor devil spent his time deceiving his friends about the source of his inspiration, carefully neglected to say that he had read The Countess of Rudolstadt (although to confuse critics he praised George Sand's other novels) and hinted at a dreadful...
Freshman Worries, Psychologist James Page of the University of Rochester, investigating the worries of male & female university freshmen, found that girls worried mainly over whether they were popular, that boys were afraid of being underweight, of not taking sufficient interest in their work, of not being able to meet their responsibilities or find financial security after graduation, of having to support their parents in old age. Two percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid...
...worth of overalls and kitchen stoves. The citizens had done it, they said, simply by giving themselves as references for each other and nobody ever seemed to have paid for what he ordered. One of them even got his cat an A credit rating. The inspectors are afraid they will have to make some more arrests, but they think it fortunate for their case that they will be able to take the erring citizens out of Bug Tussle for trial...
...Albert Einstein of today is no longer the timid bewildered man who visited the U. S. in 1930. He has acquired considerable poise in public, is not so afraid of the world as he used to be, entertains frequently. He has learned that it is not necessary to associate with anyone whom he does not like and trust. His telephone number is not listed and the telephone company will not furnish it. He leads the kind of life he likes and the U. S. suits him very well...
...have probably heard about my difficulty, and I hope you won't mind me taking the liberty of writing you. I'm afraid I am a case of maladjustment or something. It has just come on recently, and I never had any trouble before. In college I never got amnesia or even fainting spells. I never even considered such a stunt as I recently read about of one of your boys paddling to Florida in a canoe, Have you had any luck with later life maladjustments? Very sincerely, Harold A. Gorilla...