Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars of Sovietland, spent several weeks in Rome, seeking a cure for bronchitis, announced the Russian Embassy of that city. He took the precaution of preserving strictest incognito for fear of assassination...
...with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear of injury to the mosquitoes...
...difficult to determine fairly whether the Yale vote is but a sign of temporary mens iusana, or a result of an understandable desire to smash traditions, or in fact, as educators will fear, a last crushing blow delivered to free the glorious American sports forever from the age old incubus of scholastic fetters. If this latter is the real significance, the Yale Seniors are to be commended most highly for their unselfish, frankness. Other universities will doubtless try the same policy with hopes of comparable athletic results...
There is much conjecture, and rightly, over what effect a revival of European industry and international trade will have on our own business conditions. Yet any fear that it will leave us with insufficient capital is mere stock ticker hysterics. One glance at the embarrassingly high Federal Reserve Gold ratios is enough to establish that fact...
...seems most probable that the undergraduate's occasional excesses are actuated largely by a sense of irresponsibility, and that feeling of rebelliousness which manifests itself in the young of all species. One's early training rarely causes one to revere the law for its own sake--but rather to fear the consequences of disobedience. The bold blades, therefore are naturally impelled to brave the possible consequences, as an exhibition, perhaps a quite unconscious one of daring or recklessness. Increasing the penalty may deter some; but it enhances the exploit for the rest. The policy of laissez-faire" probably...