Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...start will be pushed forward the same distance. This is caused by the fact that the finish of the course as it stands at present would be a little below the railroad bridge on which the observation train is to run. The New York, New haven, and Hartford officials fear that, unless the course is changed, an accident might occur owing to the tendency of the onlookers in the train to lean too far out over the observation platform railing. At a conference held yesterday between the officials of the railroad and the Rowing Committees of the two universities...
...disappointed. They saw an organization which was playing at top speed from start to finish, and that is what they have been waiting to see. If the team has really found itself and can continue this consistent aggressiveness and wide-awake playing Coach Duffy and Captain McLeod need not fear the result of the coming games...
General Sherburne, in an article printed elsewhere in this issue, states a fear that men of certain educational qualifications are likely to believe themselves born with the right to command, regardless of their individual ability as leaders; whereas in reality there are countless men of less fortunate schooling who, on account of personal fitness, are far more suitable for commissions. That he is right in his assertion that "a college man, because he is a college man, is not thereby given a divine right to become an officer," is undeniable. Naturally all men of any certain type of education...
Colonel Logan's fear of Prussianism seems slightly unnecessary. Such men as President Roosevelt and General Wood have repeatedly pointed out the dangers of the haphazard volunteer system and the fallacy of leaving national defense to the most brave and patriotic...
News that the 1921 Smoker has been indefinitely postponed, because the Cambridge Fire Department will not allow the holding of two successive parties in the Union, is at best mysterious. Does the Fire Department fear that two such gathering will result in a combustible effect? Or does the Fire Chief consider that the left-over warmth of one evening will mean no less than sheer conflagration the next? Frankly, we are puzzled. Perhaps the Department's statistician has slightly miscalculated the average life of an undergraduate cigarette...