Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear of the Allies that Germany would be outlawed from world trade and hence unable to pay her debts, seems to have been without foundation. And there is at least one paradox in the spectacle of the wealthiest nation in the world pausing long over a half billion dollar loan to her own merchant marine, while Germany needs a foreign check-rein to keep her from staking her last cent on German enterprise...
According to eyewitnesses, as he was placed with his back against the customary wall he showed considerable signs of fear. He first asked that his eyes be bandaged, for it was bad enough to be shot-let alone see the leveled rifles pointing at his heart. His request was promptly complied with. Then, leaning against the wall for support, he asked that the command to fire be silent...
...President Arthur H. Sapp of Rotary International was on hand. He reported on Modern Youth. "Modern youth," said President Sapp, "has neither hope of heaven nor fear of hell. He commits suicide as a part of his college course, and he and his sisters fly across the seas knowing that saltwater is a sure cure for all ills...
...mountebanks and spiritualists caused fear and contempt of hypnotism in the U. S. and brought about its practical divorce from medicine. Almost anyone can hypnotize another person, if the other is willing. Skilled and tactful hypnotists can put nine out of ten subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though...
...cornerstone for the proposed 15,000,000-franc International House of Chemistry, which French scientists promise will function as purely as the Pasteur Institute, but which U. S. chemical manufacturers fear will centralize continental opposition to the U.S. chemical industry. Also opposed to the institution is the American Chemical Society, whose Secretary, Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, last month wrote to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg: "The American Chemical Society is very strongly opposed to the creation of any international centre for the control of chemistry, whether it be located in France or elsewhere." The Department of State...