Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...government is clever enough to see the affect of American aggression on the European powers. Already suspicious of our motives because of the blind folly of the Senate in failing to ratify the Peace Treaty, any show of force on our part would turn their suspicion into hatred and fear. Moreover, the imprisonment of the United States consular agent, Jenkins, raises a nice question of international law and of the power of the Mexican executive to free Jenkins from the jurisdiction of the Puebla state court. The whole affair gives great opportunity for subtle argument, at which the Mexicans...
...though the obnoxious idea in question is momentarily crushed, and the man who advanced it is discharged, there is a doubly evil effect--the question is brought into greater prominence than before, and others professors find themselves afraid to step at all beyond the limits of complete conventionality. For fear of suppression they dare not carry on their work nor their investigations...
...last Saturday, it was shown that Yale had not so much to fear from her opponents' passes as from her own. With the score six to six in the third quarter Neville hastily threw a lateral pass to Kempton. The pass went wild and fell to the ground. Scheerer, a Princeton substitute, scooped up the ball and before the Yale players knew what had happened, he had crossed the goal line for the winning touchdown...
...product of these European elections lies in the seeming assurance that the people who are having cold shivers for fear of the Bolsheviks can now go to bed in safety, and expect to wake up in the morning with their houses undemolished by bombs. The world, when one comes right down to it, is a pretty safe and sane old place, after...
What capital and labor need is a legal backing to their agreements. Unions should be incorporated; breaches of contract on either side should be made punishable by law. Then capital would not be afraid of sudden walk-outs and labor would have no fear of injustice...