Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bomb Tokyo? Lead China? Tokyo's queasiest fear this week was lest Mr. T. V. Soong should judge Japan to be in such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that...
...issue was up before His Majesty's Government last week because nearly every London newspaper has editorially let slip during the recent crisis its fears that when the next war comes U. S. citizens may have a slogan as important as "Remember the Maine!"-namely, "Remember Mrs. Simpson!"-and be disinclined to rush overseas a second time to help the "Mother Country" fight. Not in the least far-fetched in the United Kingdom today, this authentic fear was giving serious concern in Whitehall. In 1936 thus far Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has received at No. 10 Downing...
Like dinitrophenol, Prontosil is an aro matic coal tar product. Prontosil's full chemical formula is the disodium salt of 4-sulph-amido-phenyl-2-azo-7-acetylamino-1-hydroxynaphthalene 3.6-disulfonic acid. All doctors fear new drugs derived from coal tar. They may exhibit unexpected deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat...
...girls avail themselves of the longer course, under Miss Warren the enrolment has grown, to 277, tuition has been shaved from $1,800 to $1,700. President Warren's last big day in the news came when she forbade students to hitchhike to Yonkers for the afternoon for fear that they might be kidnapped. That provoked a memorable controversy between President Warren and the Mayor of Yonkers. To replace Board Chairman MacCracken, Sarah Lawrence last week elected Dr. Elliott Dunlap Smith, master of Yale's Saybrook College. Elected a trustee was one of Sarah Lawrence...
However far off-base Dogman Terhune might be in his explanation of the phenomenon, animal experts generally agree that dogs and other domestic beasts recognize human fear just as humans recognize it in each other. Some comments on the Terhune-A. M. A. controversy last week: Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, Bronx Zoo herpetologist: "Any indication of fear, either in humans or animals, is a temptation for the adversary to pile...