Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidence is accumulating to prove that the country is facing a more acute situation in the coal industry than the public realizes. It has been the general assumption that the coal problem could not possibly be worse than during the past year, but labor leaders and employers fear that the worst...
...Educational Conference of the Episcopal Church concluded its meetings in Omaha. The educators declared themselves open to all modern knowledge and scientific research which was not contrary to the Apostles' Creed. This stand for liberalism was taken, they say, because of many questions asked by young people who fear they have to give literal belief to the story of Jonah and the whale and other incidents recorded in the Bible...
...enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing...
...lest the size of the group of Americans defeat its purpose, for the students are surrounded by their own countrymen, and thorough intermingling with the English is hampered. The two Englishmen at Harvard will have no such obstacle to becoming acquainted with the peculiarities of Americans. They may well fear partial "Americanization...
...Italians who run a very questionable hotel are priceless; Mrs. Worth, an old English lady with a longing for Devon is excellent, while it will be very hard to forget the Reeces, Mrs. Reece unreal, brittle, and colorless as a wax doll, and Mr. Reece with his ever-lasting fear for the valves of Mrs. Reese's heart. "How is she?" "Badly, badly. They say the valves are closing. Closing up. Stenosis is the word the doctor uses, but long words don't make it any better...