Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, according to the resolution passed, "recognizes as vital traditions of the University these rights which the University must construe as limited only by the limitations imposed by constitutional rights on citizens of this nation. These rights are to be exercised freely and without fear of reprisal...
...real dauger lies elsewhere, that from the professional agitators; so far we have only abotted them. For the "isms" are symptomatic of fear and unrest, and we have given them the very atmosphere of persecution and hysteria on which they thrive, driving them underground where they will be hardest to destroy. The essence of democracy is clear thinking and tolerance. We take ourselves too seriously. A country with a sense of humour need fear no Revolution. Hugh Barbour...
...rarely is Tabouis caught with a false prediction that she cannot balance with a true one. For she has no fear at all of contradicting herself, even in the same article, frequently prophesies happenings that are mutually exclusive. She has been spectacularly right & wrong simultaneously on everything that has occurred in Europe for a dozen years. On her own staff she wars perpetually with bearded, ancient Georges de la Fouchardiére, L'Oeuvre's political humorist. A witty contemporary once said that Fouchardiére "daily executes on page two the dangerous maniac who operates on page...
...against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told of how he utterly confounded a woman who argued that one must eat meat to gain strength. Snapped Dr. Pease: "I never before knew why the measly elephant is so weak...
...last seven or eight Christmases have not been especially lush in York. Because of war and the fear of war, this year is different, as it is different in many other U. S. manufacturing cities. In the striking case of York...