Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumption will be that the U. S. and a European country of equal strength have for some time been under strained relations. For fear of precipitating war, the American Government has not ordered its Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic. Suddenly, however, the foreign fleet appears in the middle Atlantic. The Pacific Fleet is ordered to the Atlantic via the Canal...
...this move these two crusading spirits have brought comfort to those respectable souls who encountered most shocking statements in a chance perusal of the Smart Set. Now they need fear no such attacks upon their righteousness for the gadflies are all safely caged in one magazine...
Mediation is perhaps the most dangerous task that can be imposed upon a man, and I have some misgivings as to whether I am not boldly "rushing in where angels fear to tread" in the present instance. Yet the deep respect with which I regard the rights of Religion and Science, and my belief that there are others who also wish to mete out full justice, as far as possible, to the respective claims of these hoary old opponents prompt me to propose a truce, the Truce...
Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
Fokker is in the U. S. again on his third visit since the War. He has sold many machines to both the Army and Navy and has established himself solidly. The Dutch fear greatly that they will lose him because of the larger possibilities of the U. S. This fear is not ungrounded. Fokker is negotiating for the purchase of one of the largest aircraft factories, and is studying an air route from Detroit to Chicago and St. Louis. American manufacturers regard him with very mixed feelings. They dread his competition in securing Government contracts, but would be delighted...