Word: fear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wounded War veteran . . . broke . . . robs store . . . is sentenced to serve six to ten years in a Georgia chain gang . . . escapes . . . reforms . . . becomes successful Chicago magazine editor ... is forced to marry a woman 14 years his senior for fear she will betray him ... is betrayed by her because of jealousy over a younger, prettier woman...
What is such a "first solo" experience? In a sense, always much the same. In 1918--in 1929. Wartime or peacetime. Army or business. A mental hazard-the "wind up" fear of the unknown and of self-then a man "comes through" according to whatever he has in him to draw upon...
...professionalism upon fields that have thus far been represented mainly by the amateur. It was not such a far cry to the professional conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone the attempted subsidization of better accepted sports such as tennis...
...hardly think TIME can claim to be "on its toes" in the Cinema column. So we beg you to fear nothing. When Cinema officials encourage cinema directors to muckrake sewers for ideas give your critics a free hand to tell...
...Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925) reported his observations on ape intelligence. Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell reluctantly (for fear of meddlesome publicity) told the psychologists. That purpose is no less than to establish an anthropoid farm in Florida, where Professor Yerkes will spend most of his time comparing simian and human emotional and mental processes...