Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restore the vitality of private enterprise. At Montpelier, Vermont's legislators were, awed by the damage their capital had suffered from the raging Winooski River. Going into a special session, they listened to John E. Weeks as he read from the 46th Psalm "Therefore we will not fear....though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." They voted an$8,500,000 $8,500,000 bond issue to restore highways and bridges; authorized the Emergency Board to borrow $1,500,000 for other relief measures; voted to loan...
Strong hands, quick to become doubled fists, a hard jaw, and a heavy scowl have sometimes been called the typical externals of President Plutarco Elias Calles. The fact that he once publicly alluded to "the grunts of the Pope" caused some to fear that his mind might resemble his fists. Last week such mistaken impressions were given the lie when Senor Calles proved himself not only supple of body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another...
...tightly hemmed in with supervision. Education is obtained by force feeding; not sought because minds are hungry. Harvard believes a man will learn more by seeking learning; than by sitting on a bench and having learning thrust upon him; believes that the desire to know is stronger than the fear of ignorance. Said Dean A. C. Hanford: "Present educational methods are comparatively satisfactory, but they also lack much of the force which springs from methods more than satisfactory. "A small group will perhaps be carried away by their new freedom, but it is the firm belief of the faculty that...
...crowded tenement districts. In China the rapid birth rate is offset by pestilence and famine, but here in America where there is no immediate danger of such conditions, there ought to be some means of enabling a man and woman to enjoy the companionship of married life without the fear of the expenses that children would cause...
Perhaps the fear, in this case, is an empty one, but it is usually true that when a band of zealots with a cry of "Allah!" pluage with proselytizing fervor into a war for a cause, the validity of the means becomes obscured in the worth of the end. The liberties taken by anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman...