Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years as official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ gave him a good deal of anxiety for fear that the old bellows would leak faster than he could pump. "Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower," he used to tell his grandchildren...
...central banks gathered at a board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland, found fundamental conditions growing worse in every important economic area of the earth (see p. 20). After the meeting a New York Times correspondent wrote: "There is no feeling of despair and no fear of an immediate catastrophe anywhere, however. Pessimism comes from the continued lack of any indication of improvement in the basic factors . . . and discouragement from the fact that every one, despite all efforts made, feels he is forever fighting in retreat...
Under cover of the ensuing darkness highly organized criminal gangs held all London in a spell of fear. The only protection against them was a handful of aged watchmen who were primarily interested in keeping out of harm's way. In the suburbs there weren't even watchmen, and to get, an unarmed coach into the city after dark was almost a miracle...
...CRIMSON seen fit to report President Conant, instead of merely splashing spectacular excerpts over its front page, an analysis at this late date would indeed be superfluous. The truth of the matter is that the CRIMSON in its hunt for headlines has so far abnegated its critical function for fear of offending University Hall, that they dare not present even a serious analysis. The Goose must not be embarrassed when she lays the golden eggs; the editors obligingly veil their eyes...
...nice that the CRIMSON board have succeeded in rationalizing their fear into a philosophy, and that they have at last given it such suave and supercilious expression. We trust, however, that they will forgive us if we offer them an epigram, a motto for the future: "Hanford's in his heaven; all's well with the World." J. P. Coolidge...