Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lack of confidence in one's own abilities. "I've never run a boys' club; I don't think I could do it" is the pathetic, hesitating complaint. And although no one denies that the ability to handle a boys' club is a faculty worth cultivating, the natural fear of facing singlehanded a whole troop of noisy, critical, sarcastically impudent youngsters is not pleasant when viewed from the comfort of an arm-chair. However, victories are not won in arm-chairs; and the test of this pudding, as many men will testify, is in the eating thereof...
Upon his arrival in this country Baron d'Estournelles de Constant was told that war between the United States and Mexico was imminent, but upon reaching the Mexican frontier he was informed that the real reason for the rumor was the fear of Japanese interference in the Mexican situation. Upon investigating this rumor, however, Baron d'Estournelles found that Japanese interference on this side of the Pacific was quite out of the question...
...narrowness, we fear the author of yesterday's communication acquired writer's cramp. Certainly there is no attempt at ridicule, and we doubt if any one of that galaxy of fifteen stellar athletes who clamor at our gates would be so supersensitive as to let a lone cartoon of his race influence his choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board...
Judge Lindsey has had every opportunity to observe the workings of woman suffrage in Colorado since it was started sixteen years ago, and is in favor of the movement. He states that not only has the fear of women prevented the nomination of men of bad morals but women have defeated such men, even when nominated on regular tickets. In fact, Judge Lindsey himself was re-elected by the help of the women in 1908 as Judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver, although he ran independently of any ticket...
...comparing the scores which Brown made against Yale and Harvard, deduce that Harvard would win from Yale by the score of 33 to 0. Now that man had lost all his sand, just as we are likely to lose ours and become over-confident. I have no fear for Yale, but I have the greatest respect for them, for I have seen them under similar circumstances to these of the present, come back like a thousand of brick and snatch victory from a Yale defeat...