Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor told the Sachems of Tammany to fear not, for he would work. With such assurance, Tammany dared do anything and nominated last month State Senator James J. Walker for Mayor...
...Commander Lansdowne was very much opposed to making the flight at this time, and he advised the department accordingly. Having been born in the Ohio Valley, he knew weather conditions out there and had some fear of them." may rest throughout the years...
...fortified him with an expeditionary force. The reason for the difference was simple. When M. Caillaux went to London he had no expectation of making a final settlement. He knew that the British Government would not dare arrive at definite terms until Washington had made terms, for fear that Washington would get better terms. But M. Caillaux very much wanted to know where he stood with Britain before he undertook to settle definitely with the U. S. For, although the U. S. will not admit any connection between French debts to Britain and the U. S., yet from the French...
...some wondered, largely the fear of indolence, the terror of the waste and shrill emptiness of life that drove a gentleman of such parts, schooled in such a civilized charm, to lead a life beleaguered with lonely effort, desolated with efficiency? Was it this terror, also, that bred in him such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant...
When Lawson became a partner of Melville E. Stone, he made a covenant with him that neither would buy the securities of any public service corporation for fear they might lay their paper open to the suspicion of serving that green-backed, slobber-jawed ogre, THE INTERESTS...