Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with this restriction it is apparent that Professor Haring has been in constant fear of allowing his explanations to occupy too much, and this fear has proved rather injurious to the book. For the presentation often becomes jerky and terse as the historian hurries from one episode to another, with the inevitable result of producing an account that is sometimes hard to follow with sustained interest. This stylistic difficulty somewhat mars an otherwise very valuable book...
...House. The Republicans who had so long defended Gag Rule as an honorable mechanism of party government voted 88 to 11 against it. The Democrats, who had long abused it, voted 231 to 69 for it. Once more a House majority went comfortably about its business without fear of a legislative attack from the rear...
...Only intelligible as a reference to Japanese fear that Britain and the U. S. may wage a joint war of chastisement against Japan...
...awards, Mr. Hanford feels that some scholarships should be awarded on a continuing basis so that a student of very high standing will possess "a certain sense of security and will be removed from the necessity of pressure and strain of always centering his attention on high grades for fear that someone else will get one more A or B and thus endanger his own chance of being awarded a scholarship in the following year...
Such actions destroy all logical and legalistic defense of lynching and reveal it as it is--the result of blind hatred and fear. The Civil War and the resulting Constitutional amendments were no solution of the racial problem. Calhoun, Yancey, and the other statesmen of the Old South probably realized more clearly than their victorious Northern opponents that when two races live together in constant contact one must inevitably rule over the other. The American Indians and the natives of Malaysia are but two examples. Intermarriage is the only escape from this rigid necessity. This solution is obviously impossible...