Word: fearful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America's tremendous material prosperity will come to nothing if the training of future citizenship is neglected," he continued. "Apply the same scientific intelligence to improvement of human beings that we devote to improving material things, and we need not fear the future...
Hanover, N. H., Oct. 23--Dartmouth's football team went through its new formations this afternoon behind closed gates. A scrimmage that was scheduled for this afternoon's workout was called off for fear of injuries which the members of the varsity squad might sustain...
Last July two divisions of ragged Nationalist troops swept through Tao-chow-ting on shaggy Chinese horses, burning, shooting. Three thousand fear-crazed Mohammedans were killed. Hundreds of other Moslems, fleeing along the Hsiat-sang valley toward Tibet were shot down by Tibetan frontier guards...
Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I shall die this year...
...would do so desperate a deed of wickedness was a man playing for highest stakes: he was trying to catch Jimmy at work. Notice too that this theory accounts for the nonchalance with which Mayor Walker treated the whole affair: his conscience was clear; he need fear...