Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage strangely dark the pact between Sender and Nissen was pledged in such a leisurely prolog that many a Detroiter shifted uneasily, began to fear for the evening to come. First act picked up when the scene changed to the interior of a synagog. Comics were the bearded batlans who droned their prayers for a kopek or two, spent their earnings on vodka. A tragic, pale-faced figure was Hanan, Nissen's son, torn between the Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally...
...week went on it became apparent that a good part of the fear was generated no less by the actual victory of the Popular Front than by the uproarious Rightist press, whose dire predictions on the future of France could be compared in the U. S., perhaps, to a session of the National Association of Manufacturers under the New Deal. In France, however, these die-hard fulminations were taken seriously, with the result that the Paris Bourse was in a near-panic...
...franc is implicit in any French New Deal. French foreign trade and, politically more important, French tourist trade have suffered woefully from devotion to gold. Having taken a 79% devaluation in 1928 and endured the preceding inflation, the French people, particularly its millions of small investors, hate & fear the idea of currency tampering. Lately, however, Jean Frenchman has begun to feel the terrible grind of deflation, and a shot in the economic arm, if reasonably successful, might be forgotten as quickly as dollar devaluation was forgotten...
...absence of tutors, the advisers should be available to students for consultation and help. Topics demanding special explanation and correlation can best be handled in tutorial conferences. The situation clearly calls for a more definite and formal arrangement, since students now hesitate to go to their advisers for fear of imposing on their time...
...theme-song" type of broadcast (Fear, Hope, Hatred, etc.), which he employs upon occasion, packs an awful wallop. We deeply regret that atmospheric conditions will soon be such that many nights we shall have to retire without obtaining his clear, complete, nonpartisan, well interpreted picture of the day's news. Fifteen minutes with Paul Sullivan at the microphone seems to pass as quickly as a scared cat through a doorway...