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Word: fears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fact is, many poor folk in many countries fear that if they go to the hospital they will get the "black pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Denmark | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...modulate the curious articulations made possible by the apparatus. The mutes addressed the skeptical surgeons. Audibly, precisely, they droned commonplace words in unearthly monotones. Dr. Mackenty claims that his invention would save the lives of many who yearly refuse to undergo operations, that might save their lives, for fear of losing their speech. The surgeons, astounded, were still skeptical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Voiceless Speech | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...where the temperature is about the same and the pressure almost as great. For a popular explanation of how these miracles are possible, one has only to refer to the chapter on "Cave and Deep-Sea Life" in Professor Richard Swan Lull's Organic Evolution (Macmillan, 1920). I fear that some of your readers may have been led by your publication of Subscriber DuCloe's letter into discounting some of Nature's true miracles. It would seem clear that the statements in the article did not exceed the bounds of Nature. W. W. LOUGHBERRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 15, 1924 | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...time to come, it will have to be the main resource of members of the University who are interested in this most vital of all the arts of the present day. Those who have observed the enthusiasm and devotion of past and present members of the club have little fear that it will not live up to this new responsibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER PRAISES "PEDRO THE KING" | 12/9/1924 | See Source »

...cosmopolitan Paris there can be found some people to proclaim anyone or anything from Voliva of Zion City to the Great Cham of Tartary. Such demonstrations cannot be taken, therefore, with the naive faith the newspapers seem to accord them. They do, however, feed the popular fear that every communist is an unshorn, unwashed carrier of death and destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEWHISKERED BUGBEARS | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

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