Word: fear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Government interfence is unnecessary. (a) Trusts and monopolies are the natural evolutions of the economic principle that capital is most effective where most concentrated,-Forum, vol. 8, p. 66. (b) They are the means of lowering prices,-Polit. Science Quar., vol. 3, p. 385. (c) Competition, or the fear of competition, is a competent controlling influence,-Forum...
...juniors rowed every day until Saturday, when they took a rest till yesterday afternoon. The men are heavy, clumsy, and new. They may more reasonably fear to be last than hope to be first. Their barge is very badly rigged. The outriggers are so weak that they cannot hold the oars firmly against the water. Of course they will get into a shell soon but their debut is likely to be tragic. Every man has plenty of faults and some of the new men are very rough. The men fail to row the stroke well out and get forward promptly...
Jupiter was identified with the Greek god Zeus. He was the lightning god and various other functions were grouped around this one. The fear of lightning was very great among the Romans, and they held a lightning stroke to be a serious mark of the god's anger To appease it the necessary expiation was originally human sacrifices...
...feared by some that the Jews will soon attain too great a power in the world by reason of their vast riches but this was thought by Professor Toy to be a cause for little fear. It is true that there is a certain antagonism to, and prejudice against, the Jews but this is gradually vanishing. Then, too, it must be remembered that the Christians were the ones responsible for the degraded position of the Jews in the Middle Ages, since they were at that time forbidden to own lands and were thus driven to be traders. It has been...
...half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic is the most noteworthy of the good qualities of the book which is really a combination of satire and wit. English nobility and royalty are lashed unsparingly by Mr. Clemen's strokes of sarcasm, and the reasonable fear is that he has carried his absurd exaggeration too far for any beneficial effect to result from...