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Word: feared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth, like murder, must out, I shall have to confess that it was with many misgivings that I took up "Brother Saul," After reading his other books there was a lurking fear that this one might not quite be up to their standard. Could this writer, the breath of whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit...

Author: By H. J. S. ., | Title: BROTHER SAUL. By Donn Byrne. The Century Co., New York, 1927. $2.50. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...sometimes advised that there is a movement among students and women that is against national defense. If there are any two elements that give me no fear it is the women and young men. We can't keep the young men from responding to a call for war. In a far nobler and higher degree is this true of women. In all times of trial women lead . . . inspiring and supporting beyond the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: It Must Not Be Again | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw. The big scene shows a great herd of chang (elephants) being driven into a trap by fear of natives camouflaged as bushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired by divisionals has its companion, not completely ancillary good in the particular training involved. The Harvard "Ask Me Another" is essentially a valuable experience, a creditable experiment in that wide, Ill charted field of "higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASK ME ANOTHER | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

President Hibben then stated his idea of the real value of a man to a community, saying that it "did not depend upon his being a so-called law-abiding citizen; his conduct must also conform to the standard of some self-imposed law. . . . Fear of penalties at best can only be a restraining influence. Respect for law based upon fear alone has little or no value in the life of a community . . . . It becomes more and more evident that no government can make man moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hibben Stresses Obligations of Nations and Individuals | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

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