Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed. Had you said I was of Irish descent, there could have been a stout argument for as well as against. You might even make a stand on the allegation that I am of British descent, since my father was a British subject when I was born. But I fear it is hopeless to make me out "of Danish stock...
General Electric and Westinghouse. who are working hard to hasten the commercialization of television, have a great fear−that the public may gull itself about this new entertainment. Last week Westinghouse's Vice President H. P. Davis warned: "Television, in so far as present accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction...
Fire; smoke, and echoes of combustion struck momentary fear in the hearts of P. B. H. guardians late yesterday afternoon. An alarm was turned in. Emergency bucket brigades were formed...
...agreeing; Jews and Christians holding love feasts in England and the U. S.; proselytizing of U. S. Jews discouraged; Jewish education aggressively pushed throughout the U. S.; a non-religious renaissance of Hebrew culture everywhere. Jews have become exuberant and expansive in the happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear now is that a politico-economic condition might insidiously arise to throttle them again. An effort to prevent such a thing is the $1,000 prize award announced this week by the New York Jewish Tribune. Its judges will give the money...
...commodity exchange is started without opposition. Importers fear professional gamblers, with no interest in the industry, seeking only new fields for speculation. Such fears have postponed, perhaps indefinitely, plans for a jute and burlap exchange. But an exchange to deal in metals futures is scheduled to open about Nov. 1. And last week, at Albany, papers of incorporation were filed for the National Cotton Exchange, to compete with the 57-year-old New York Cotton Exchange...