Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Benson will discuss the development of the navy, from the time of the wooden frigate to the modern dread-naught and submarine, describing, the various types of vessels. He will also relate some of his experiences before and during...
...traditional policy of freedom from discrimination on the grounds of race or religion." A few critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient." And, if they seek suggestions either conclusive or startling they will look in vain. What they may forget is the fact that...
Long ago, with increasing knowledge of the causes of such expressions of Nature as thunder or 'lightening, the human race lost the superstitious fear of these phenomena. But the earthquake still remains to fill men's hearts everywhere with helpless dread. The earth quivors--and suddenly the importance of all politics, wars, human ambition, dwindles to nothing...
...world affairs through this splendid channel, the most hopeful ever created,--by the timorous conservatism and petty politics of a few men in the United States Senate. It seems likely that it will take at least five or six years to overcome in America the impression of suspicion and dread of the most Christian attempt to cooperate for the good of all ever seen in the world,--an impression raised by the bickering of the Republican Senators over a constitutional document that had yet to have the slightest breath of life blown into it,--that could have been amended...
...conditions of labor unrest no more advanced today than they were at this time last year, and with the country becoming more involved with each new twist which the tide of industrial foment takes, careful analysis of the root of our inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive...