Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most readers had heard of "fear-smell" before, accepted Author Terhune's dictum without question. But Dr. A. J. Reich of Manhattan wrote to the American Medical Association for confirmation. Last fortnight A. M. A. replied in its Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
Which is a vulgar world, I fear...
...Simplicio & Lucio Godino made world news by applying for licenses to marry Natividad and Victorina Motos in Manila. The marriage license clerk objected for fear of compounding collateral bigamy but the sisters and brothers eventually were married. They organized a vaudeville act in which they danced, saxophoned and bantered through South and North America...
...Philadelphia Record: "The C. of C. has misrepresented the businessmen of this country long enough. The C. of C. brought businessmen into unmerited disrepute by its short-sighted selfishness, its violent and irresponsible attacks on the New Deal and its hook-up with interests which the average American businessman fears-and has reason to fear. . . . Chamber of Commerce thinking has been dominated by men . . . who could not or would not understand that in our system it is just as important to have customers who can buy as it is to have goods to sell." The Dry Goods Association...
...that the Augean stables of professionalism look as filthy to undergraduates there as they do here. Such critics point to minor differences in standards--which they would remove most of the pressure from highly professionalized antagonists. United in self-defense and cooperation, the seven colleges can elevate without fear of repercussion, the standards to a common high through uniform eligibility rules, fixed practice sessions, and similar regulations...