Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total representation, Harvard, of course, can only provide one-third. A majority of the Harvard quota will be filled with undergraduates exclusive of "Crimson" editors, and this fact alone should eliminate any fear of prospective attendants and Faculty that they will be "frozen out" by publicity-hunting gentlemen of the press. In many ways the H-Y-P Conference is unique in the advantage it offers to the interested undergraduate. It provides him with the chance to meet a highly representative cross-section of the leaders of our country. In digesting their empirical ideas he is better able to estimate...
...offering to give him what he wanted in six plants, and in none. As John Lewis' temper wore thin, too, only three bonds held the negotiators together. One was President Roosevelt's insistence on an agreement, delivered in daily telephone calls to Governor Murphy. Another was fear of the public wrath which would fall on whichever side precipitated a breakup. The third was fear of the violence which would almost certainly erupt in Flint on news of the breakup...
...preliminary conversations with Ribbentrop it appears that Hitler considers that Europe owes him colonies out of the goodness of its heart or from fear of the consequences, Der Führer will get an answer from Britain which will approximate 'no tickee, no shirtee...
...troops under General Ku are the famed "Chiang's Own," smartly drilled by Germans, far better equipped than any other Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which their General Ku gave discreet expression last week. "If you observe the people of Sian and its province of Shensi smoking opium, ignore it for the present," he ordered, just before his troops finally entered Sian this week, apparently unresisted. "Hold your peace. We wish to forget that this Sian. trouble...
With the announcement that Harvard is about to go on the air comes a creeping fear that the talent of this University will not measure up favorably with the more extravagant and better advertised radio programs. Perhaps this very fear will do more than anything else to make lectures here the best-planned and most informative in the country. For when Yale and Chicago follow our lead to the microphone competition will have begun in earnest and America's oldest university will have the chance to show the world its real appeal...