Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long as an adequate Navy guards our coasts, we need not fear the coming of any invader...
...adopts the old-world manner, shuns personal publicity, wants to be known only in connection with his scientific work, makes many addresses before scientific societies. In addressing the Society last week, he spoke of Science as an enemy of War, making the point that as modern discoveries made War fearful, further inventions have made it feared. When fighting means certain, agonizing death, no man will fight; and since Science has become, like Death, all-efficient, it is, like Fear, a deterrant to destruction. Sir Max Muspratt spoke. His was a gasconade: "Through Chemistry...
...this Year, who are obliged to take Lodgings in ye Town; upon we not only they themselves complain of great Difficulties & Inconveniences, but ye Gentlemen yt have ye Govermt of ye Society do already feel great Concern in yr Minds & have but uncomfortable Views of Mischief impending; wch yr fear they shall not be able to avert; by reason of many being necessitated to be so much & so far from their Constant Inspection, & ye Slender Authority ye College is capable of onpecting from ye Town...
...roaring chanties, brave sea-tales. Though Chaucer, to whom Mr. Masefield owes much, John Donne and Sir Andrew Barton are well represented, most of the poems are comparatively modern. This is explained by the fact that the older poets, through the Elizabethans, knew the sea only well enough to fear it, regarding it as a crawling, treacherous enemy, as indeed it was, and looking upon sailors as rude, blasphemous, uncharitable dogs, as indeed they were. They were also intrepid fighters and stout explorers. These are the songs, as they might be sung by a binnacle light over...
...editors, writers and reporters are of as little significance as the individual pea in the can. . . . This . . . destroys individual initiative and enthusiasm and tends to transform his editorial writers into hired men who, within the narrow limits assigned to them and the still narrower limits inspired by their fear of making a mistake, pound out expressions of what they believe he wants. ... In such an atmosphere . . . the profession of journalism reaches the vanishing point...