Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proverb of more than ordinary value in educational circles, but procrastination has little to excuse itself. The tutorial system has had years to prove its value in the Division of History, Government and Economics and its application to men concentrating in literature can be no cause for trepidation or fear of dire results...
...will fear the Argentine to pieces in the early rounds. The result will lie in Firpo's ability to pick up the pieces. He must allow himself to be pounded to a pulp dispassionately. He must retain enough vitality to explode the dynamite of his right hand in the hole which the champion must leave in his defense before the fight is done. Expert opinion judges him unskilled to do these things...
...threat was the issuance of an injunction by the Superior Court of Sacramento County forbidding the I. W. W. to act as an organization or as its officers and members. In view of previous I. W. W. threats of a similar nature, Sacramento has probably not much to fear...
...heated." Reports from the Schuylkill region asserted that almost half of the local unions were in revolt against the check-off demand of John L. Lewis and the miners' representatives in the joint wage conference. The reason given for this attitude by the Schuylkill miners is the fear that under the check-off the union might make excessive assessments and fines against their wages. John L. Lewis laughed at this idea and declared that private detectives employed by the operatives were responsible for the report...
...well as the continued drop in wholesale commodity prices, are already unfavorable influences upon certain mercantile lines. But caution is more prevalent among manufacturers than among merchants, and this seems altogether justified from such facts as have clearly emerged in a cloudy and confused outlook. Nowhere is there any fear of panic, but the danger of a depression is making itself more widely felt as the Fall approaches...