Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site of th : Presidential greenhouses. Said Roosevelt II: "While I am away from Washington this summer a long-needed renovation of and addition to our White House office building is to be started. ... If I were to listen to the arguments of some prophets of calamity ... I should fear that while I am away for a few weeks the architects might build some strange new Gothic tower or a factory building or per-haps a replica of the Kremlin or of Potsdam Palace. But I have no such fears...
...asbestos. Topping it was a big metal helmet with one panel of thick glass. Inside this airtight, electrically heated outfit, oxygen was fed under pressure to chubby, tousle-haired Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second, his motor quit, forced him to make a dead-stick landing after 150-m.p.h. gales had chipped paint from his plane, torn rivets out of place...
Tomorrow's Harvest (by Hans Rastede & Hyman Adler; Douglas G. Hertz, producer). By means of a weak heart Papa Goerlich, a fireside Hitler, tyrannizes over his cowed German-American family. Nothing must be done to excite him for fear the result might be fatal. It takes Papa Goerlich an unconscionable amount of time to die but he finally does. Tomorrow's Harvest falters on for another act, then it does...
...Back of most of these extras was more than a burst of Christmas cheer. It was acute corporate fear of the tax collector. Under the Revenue Act the Federal Government may lay a penalty up to 35% on the net income of a corporation which accumulates surpluses in excess of what the Government believes it "reasonably" needs. Month ago the Treasury Department launched a drive to collect such penalties from some 100 U. S. corporations (TIME, Oct. 29). The Treasury Department found itself in a morass of legal tangles arising from the difficulty of deciding what needs are ''reasonable...
Panic-stricken for fear Leonard would leave her, she talked of a suicide pact, wrote him foolish letters which he foolishly kept, toying with the idea of removing their stubborn obstacle. When one night Leonard made a drunken attack on her husband and unintentionally killed him, they were both charged with murder. Not even after the verdict was pronounced could Julia believe she would really have to die. The hypodermics they gave her as she waited for the gallows dulled her mind but did not change...