Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest is frequently moving realism, always hampered by bad locution. But what you will remember is the ghostly burthen of fear and futility borne by the voices of shadowy warriors...
Hushed Accidents. The U. S. Senate last week ordered Secretary of Commerce Lament to make public the report of every air accident, something the Secretary had refused to do for fear of shaking public confidence in aviation, of marring the reputation of operating companies, of making his Department subject to damage suits...
...Albany. "I was unable to escape the fear of fire in the hotel on my first night away from home in five years. I persuaded Tom Caughlan to stay up playing pinochle with me until five o'clock in the morning, when we took turns at sleep for an hour or so up to breakfast time. ... In my first three terms in the assembly I knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant...
While members of the country's moneyed classes ponder sadly over the safety of financial investments, there seems to be no fear as to the advisability of investment in academical institutions. Columbia University has just announced the receipt of over a million dollars from various gifts and bequests...
Without attempting to enter into what has been called the explosive zone of fire in connection with tariff policies. It is quite evident that some good patriots are fearful lest the proposed European economic union on the one hand and the increasing industrialization of the United States with resulting protective tariffs on the other, will bring about obstructions to the flow of goods between Europe and this country. To this fear, the reply is that, during the post-war decade, a period marked by unusual activity in readjustments of this sort throughout the world, the foreign commerce of nearly every...