Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the innovation is the fear that on dark days a large crowd, pouring down the narrow stairways, might cause a few injuries...
...haven't yet been able to find out if Kentucky Colonels, as well as Harvard Sophomores, are addicted to light gray flannels and blue coats. We somehow fear that Louis Leon Hall wasn't quite sure either...
...want to be the Governor to free Kansas from the disgrace of the Ku Klux Klan; and I want to offer to Kansans, afraid of the Klan and ashamed of that disgrace, a candidate who shares their fear and shame...
Manhattan yeggmen shivered with fear, groaned with apprehension. News had reached them, from Toledo, Ohio, that New York policemen had won "the world's pistol-shooting championship." Toledo officers were second, Chicagoans third. Oregon National Guardsmen wrested the national rifle championship from the U. S. Infantry team, invincible these three years...
...function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king; as for this sonnet I for one can make neither head nor tail of it. The other verse is adequate, nothing more...