Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time nearly 25% of all automobiles sold in Italy are of U. S. manufacture. Knowing the Italian character, Italian fear of ridicule and notoriety, Rome correspondents last week agreed that the proposed list of "automobilistic snobs" would be more potent than any tariff...
...entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many years, would enable Japan to further its trade, would increase our prosperity and would rid our nationals in China of the constant fear under which they have lived for so long. "Japan's position in the Far East is that of a guardian of the peace...
...been fairly popular even when there was no story in them. It was natural that some producer should try to combine an authentic panorama of some wild continent with a romance of gallantry, love. Baboons getting away from a fire, with fast, soft paws and little eyes brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them...
...Fear of Negro progress, not of Negro crime. "The tendency to direct mob violence against successful Negroes has been especially noticeable during the past ten years of lynching...
...fear of being too easy, the English Department has placed its emphasis on stupidity. In its desire to penalize the lazy scholar, it has penalized the man of intelligence. It has made itself a rigid schoolmaster for the stupid and the uninterested, forgetting the education is for the clever. In order to make sure that a few men won't get through college without working, the English Department has degenerated to secondary school methods, and discouraged the able...