Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became known that Harvard anthropologists were cooperating with the Pathe Exchange, Inc., in making educational movies of the monkeys. From Havana came Anthropologist Frederick Hulse, with Pathe Cameraman Miller, bringing 3,000 feet of film, picturing fiery orangutans who showed fight when the camera clicked, other monkeys that showed fear, others that were friendly...
...amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...
...Fourth Act. Husband Sam, ignorant of the family taint or Nina's operation, haunted with the fear that he is sterile, is losing his grip on life...
...friction of the air will melt the rocket and likewise the already ardent professor within, he smiles knowingly. When visitors asked him how he would return, it is reported that he answered, "Why cross bridges?" speaking, one presumes, metaphorically. The inhabitants of Miami, however, although they like Mr. Condit, fear he will come back to earth too speedily...
...unimpeded their right to choose the, executive, it is their prerogative to support a man of great constructive ability, if any shall appear, until the need for him no longer exists. But if the legislative body, in formal session, is to thus pass resolutions against an individual candidate, the fear at once arises that a powerful administration could keep its leader indefinitely. Such, indeed, is the procedure in England, but it is efficient because the governing functions are not torn every four years by the dissensions of campaigning. The existence of the two methods in this country is disquieting, especially...