Word: feared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among startling unlocked for discoveries were X-rays, natural radioactivity, artificial radioactivity. X-rays caused such a furor among laymen after their discovery by Roentgen that the New Jersey Legislature introduced a law forbidding their use in opera glasses, for fear that prurient individuals would be able to see through the garments of ladies...
...interested to see the picture news of the world-wide spiritual front called the One Group. Let's have more of this kind of news with answer. I am working at the New York University secretary, and find that when God guides in a job, it takes away the fear of losing your job, jealous other office employees and gives you a concrete thrilling plan each...
...money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities has fallen some $7,000,000,000, and private powermen have brewed a peculiarly vitriolic fear and hatred of the New Deal and all its power works...
...delegates, whose prime interest in power is selling power securities, retorted: The New Deal's attitude had held up some $3,200,000,000 of private utility spending for needed expansion-money which would have flowed into new construction had it not been for the industry's fear for the future...
...dons its equipment for the approaching battle the Harvard team will have one of three attitudes. It won't be sick with fear, naturally, but it may await the kick-off with confidence, quake at the thought of defeat, or vow never to yield...