Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course," says the messenger of hope, "this clearing of the streets does not mean that the smooth pavement will go down by that time, because the pavement cannot be laid until several months after the temporary pavement has been laid----" In short, the change will be gradual. Nobody need fear a heart-stroke on waking some morning and finding New York finished. --New York Evening Post...
...accuracy will be the keynotes of practice from now on, as these have been the chief defects in the team's play throughout the season. A final polishing of the attack with the addition of new defensive formations will also be emphasized. Little scrimmage will be attempted, however, for fear of first-string men in the Yale game...
...same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story is light, very light, and judged by the standard of the average American magazine, altogether irreproachable. Mr. Davis' "The Lord's Prayer" is touching enough. We do not wonder that the Belgian children were unable to forgive the Germans...
...Europe, the United States will take part, perhaps a decisive part, in the war conference of the entente allies in Paris. For the first time in our history as a nation we will enter the maelstrom of European politics and take a hand in the solution of its problems. Fear of entangling alliances is gone. The economic and physical barriers between this country and Europe have long since disappeared. The need of combined action against a common enemy has now destroyed the last trace of our political isolation...
...egoism to be individual, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of egoisms which are mad with the consciousness of themselves. But if the thought of such men is strong and clear, however strange it may seem to us, let us not dare, for the very fear of truth that is in us, to obliterate it, lest we be one with those who crucified righteousness for the cry of the Pharisees and the rabble...