Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hawaiian-born Japanese are admitted to the U. S. These in time are sure to become more and more easy to pass, and the barrier is likely to be overridden. Coffee herries, mangoes, alligator pears from Hawaii are rigidly excluded from entrance to the continental U. S.-for fear of importing the Mediterranean fruit fly. Seme Californians wish that Jappo-Americans from Hawaii could be excluded in the same...
...Liberals. And he was elected by a slim margin. This was due, partly, to William J. Bryan's advocacy. An important factor was that the attitude of many good church folk toward new ideas in religion had shifted from one of indifferent uneasiness to one of militant fear. They responded to the war cry. No sooner was Dr. Macartney elected than his following turned upon Dr. Erdman. They began to regard a refusal to fight Liberals as an almost greater sin than being a Liberal. In the pages of The Presbyterian and in the faculty rooms of the seminary...
...kind enough to answer my request, I intend to send questions in fairly regular. If I gave my own name, my friends might be amazed at such ignorance in a college graduate and might be tempted to ridicule me for the simplicity of some of my questions and I fear ridicule far worse than severe bodily punishment. "MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE" TIME has no room for a Question and Answer Column. TIME has never encouraged question-asking, but has customarily made cheerful and courteous answer by mail. Nor is it necessary that the questioner enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope.-ED. Radio...
...must decline Dr. Angell's invitation because it has been hinted that we old men are not desired beneath the elms. The college secretary has permitted a public statement that the college officers fear that returning graduates will drink, unlawfully and riotously. An official college paper tells us also that the college authorities wish the visiting graduates to refrain, in New Haven, from any public or private breach of the law. These unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: T deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example...
...earn their salaries by intoning the foolish credos of the newly established State religion of the United States. They should be of the school of Socrates, who "heartily enjoyed social pleasure and deemed it unworthy of a man capable of self-control to abstain from innocent gratification through fear of falling into excess...