Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throne. Ethiopian officers leaped about with such prized weapons as rifles, a favorite routine being to drop to the ground, pretend to fire, then leap up with a whoop. Finally, excited Dedjazmatch (General) Bayenna led a shrieking cavalry charge past the Throne and wheeled about to cry, "Emperor, fear not the politics of the outer world! The Gods are with...
...connection with this unwarranted hysteria nothing could be more poignant than a quotation from President Roosevelt's inaugural address in 1933. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." If the Constitution of the United States is not strong enough to stand on its own feet without any help from red-white-and-blue lobbyists, it is not worth saving...
...King George V studied his Admiralty charts he saw an amazing thing. Malta, traditionally Britain's "Key to the Mediterranean." had become last week an inviting naval keyhole. In fear of Italian bombing planes, the big British ships normally based at Malta had withdrawn to Egyptian and Syrian waters, leaving in the keyhole only a British aircraft carrier, its complement of battle planes and a few-light destroyers as the best weapons to be left there...
...longer must a scientist or a philosopher waste his teaching ability on sugar-coated platitudes designed to interest many bored listeners. He may now teach without fear the elements of his field. No longer must an intelligent student dull his enthusiasm in ill-adapted courses. Not only will he have his presumably fascinating field of concentration but also he may satisfy secondary interests instead of monotonous requirements...
This morning the Vagabond embarks on his first journey of the season. For fear there are those young ones as yet unfamiliar with his ways, a happy word of counsel may not be out of place. Sagmus, his old friend and philosopher, is wont to take the Vagabond under his warm wing. Not to reform, mind you, for the philosopher is a bit of a vagrant himself, but to befriend with wisdom. And the Vagabond seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination...