Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt and fear created by such a policy, both within and without an industry, fail to have its effect . . . in creating uncertainty and anxiety with a consequent retarding effect upon general recovery? What the power of government can do to one industry can likewise be visited upon any other form of business. No industry will be free from this devastating possibility...
...Pope frowns on all forms of contraception because they prevent the birth of children, prime purpose of Roman Catholic matrimony. A thoroughgoing realist, the Pope at the same time knows that many loving Catholics who fear to have children defy his pontifical frown. Therefore he decided that it is morally right and proper for Catholic couples to utilize the wife's monthly rhythm of sterility and fertility as a natural method of contraception...
...numbers as by Grant's superior tactics and determination. He brushes aside Grant's heavy losses: "Criticism of Grant for incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring Grant the superior of Napoleon himself...
...Japanese contention that the ancient 5-5-3 ratio is outmoded, for the following recently developed reasons: Japan's need of a large navy to protect Manachukuo and the status quo of the Far East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
...reversion to the old diplomatic alignment is accompanied by a parallel in internal policy. Except in the City of London itself, gone are the socialist days of the '20's. The Conservative Party has maintained its strength since last year. Reform has been forgotten and, moved by a vague fear--a feeling of uncertainty--Englishmen have shown themselves more and more willing to entrust complete control of affairs to the government. Thus the so-called coalition government of Ramsay MacDonald, like the liberal ministry of Herbert Asquith, waits and prepares...