Word: bugaboo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June of last year, he succeeded Premier Smuts (TIME, June 30) and with the help of the Labor Party mustered a majority in the House of Assembly. To get Labor's help, he was obliged to renounce any immediate effort towards secession; becoming Premier, he has buried this bugaboo, in many speeches has pronounced its funeral oration. It is therefore certain that he extends a welcome to the Prince of Wales not only in his own name but in the name of the Union...
First of all, Rear Admiral Phelps, speaking before the Women's Conference on National Defense, declared that "serious differences are brewing with England over shipping policies." This was a bugaboo so preposterous that Secretary Hughes saw fit to deny it promptly. Among his other ideas Admiral Phelps included a strange one, indeed: "These differences can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy." Bismarck himself seems to be speaking. Yet the psychologists say that man learns from experience! Perhaps Admiral Phelps has forgotten those days before the war when nations piled up armament...
Disliking as cordially as any Harvard man the bugaboo of "indifference" I shall take issue with your correspondent on only one of her remarks, although I can hardly follow her in such charges as "indifference toward academic work," "no getting together, no unity or bond of any sort," and being "cheated out of companionship," at Harvard. Of this it would seem that Harvard fellowship throughout the world is sufficient refutation...
...cooperate directly with the bureau; on the other, the University itself can arrange to employ students more generally than in the past in the carrying out of its manifold activities. Once given a fair trial the student employee, even in University positions, will dispel once for all the old bugaboo that he is less efficient that the present professional help...
...some measure of protection to Empire produce, the lack of which had disastrously affected the automobile industry of Britain. It seems established by the huge Conservative vote in Lancashire, home of the cotton mills and Richard Cobden of free trade fame, that protection is not so much of a bugaboo as was Socialism; therefore, a trend to protective tariffs is more than probable...