Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin Mead writes in the Springfield Republican of the courageous Eliot, the man who did not fear to speak his mind, even if he went unheeded in the face of a national blindness. John Jay Chapman writes down frankly his criticisms, speaks of the things he does not like, and cites himself as an example of the kindness of a great administrator who was not too busy...
...least interested and have turned to subjects of interest to the undergraduate." As one sample of the kind of question the Student has in mind, the Springfield editor refers to a future debate with Leland Stanford at which the resolution will be "That the world has more to fear than to hope for from Sapience...
...time fear spread that the crews might have to go hungry. Food stores were running low. But there was greater danger that some of them might be killed, for the vessels, with plates only five-eighths of an inch thick, stood in constant danger of being crushed by the squeezing ice. The potential destruction of property aggregated some $200,000,000; insurance lapsed with the first week of the month...
Egyptians perhaps fear and respect no man so much as George Ambrose, Baron Lloyd, the British High Commissioner to Egypt without whose approval no Egyptian Cabinet can exist (TIME, June 14). Last week this strong, suave man who stands for British Might in the "free" Kingdom of Egypt came to Rome...
...personalities of the coaches, I think, lay the reason for this new success. Football became a game again, without the fear of cutting or the desire for advancement motivating every action. We played our best, but because we wanted to, not because we were tongue-lashed into it. And withal, the games were never other than hard fought, as you might have seen had you viewed, for instance, the final Junior-Sophomore struggle for the title...