Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fear of forced resignations has reared its ugly head above the younger members of the Faculty. Its nasty grin sends safaris of instructors deep into the jungle of Widener stacks to capture its food, productive scholarship. Its threatening sneer drives assistant professors into huddles of desperate whispers...
There is no evidence that more men have left Harvard in either of the Conant years than in several years of the Lowell administration. Therefore fear is not inspired by sheer numbers...
...song number called "Dancing In Central Park," in which a standard romantic lyric is tagged with the extraneous line: "Tomorrow is the fear in my heart...
...mellow as Bethlehem's aging chairman, the other convening steelmen were filled with fear and fight. President William A. Irvin of the U.S. Steel, which controls 40% of total U.S. capacity, grumbled about foreign competition in home markets. President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic flayed the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill as "the outstanding legislative monkey-wrench which threatens to jam the wheels of recovery. . . . The one & only purpose behind it is to clamp the yoke of the closed shop upon free American citizens...
...quick succession. Corporate camaraderie was discouraged-thereby discouraging corporate politics, a bane of big business. Allied officials did not even lunch together. But, from general headquarters right down through the 70-odd plants scattered the length & breadth of the land, the whole Allied personnel had one thing in common: Fear. Some employes hesitated to take vacations lest other men would have their jobs when they returned...