Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds support Peiping's famed Yenching University but its chancellor is a Chinese of wisdom, Luh Chai-wei. "If this goes on," he said, "I believe we will have to close Yenching. If the students demonstrate again in Peiping, I fear the police will shoot into their ranks...
Surprisingly last week the Ethiopian censor with His Majesty at Dessye passed a dispatch reading, "If Il Duce wished to instill fear into the hearts of these ignorant natives he has certainly succeeded...
...Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris' Oeuvre and her group, some of whom have recently been threatened with discharge by their editors for corkscrew reporting, were busy making headlines: "PEACE PLAN FACES TROUBLE IN GENEVA," "FEAR OF PROPOSAL FADES," and then as the text became public, "DETAILS AMAZE GENEVA," "PEACE PLAN HELD DOOMED...
...other spot news prize-winners also were the work of the News's able camera staff. To Philip Levine went second prize for a close-up of one fear-filled eye of the late Jack (''Legs") Diamond peering over the shoulder of a detective (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931). To John Tresilian went third prize for an action shot of a Communist riot on Manhattan's East Side...
Best shot: a beauty-parlor operator reacting to the fear that she will be charged for a customer's long-distance call...