Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional aloofness to foreign entanglements. Why not consider the state rights of citizens of the Western Hemisphere in line with our own political experience? In the meanwhile our sister republics read and reread TIME. The unofficial promise it contains, the friendly American grin it brings to mind vanishes dread bugaboos of imperialistic satraps and oil barons...
...fervent minds of the cheering Italian congregation, Pius XI unquestionably appeared at that moment as the dread and visible incarnation of stern St. Peter, girt in the austere scarlet of a bishop to do battle with the Devil...
Theological concepts of pagan origin are somewhat out of favor just at present, but these gentlemen must surely live in fear and dread lest the Divine Eve-should open earlier than usual some morning and catch them in the act of getting a shine on Sunday...
...situation worried Admiral Byrd. If his ships could not reach him, he would be isolated for another dread year. Some of his men would surely die. Some would go mad. The survivors would be obliged to live on short rations. He must forestall that...
...afternoon, Lectures given by the Harvard Medical School the medical profession, besides furthering its primary purpose of educating the public, is taking out an implicit insurance policy for its members. The heritage to the modern practitioner from the Indian medicine-man and the medieval herb-doctor is an intangible dread with which he is regarded by the world at large. This atmosphere of mysticism which surrounds the consulting room erects about the physician an impenetrable barrier which, in the eyes of the layman, places him beyond the pale...