Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bagdad the civil jail was destroyed, but the prisoners were saved. The embankment round the city is holding and there is no fear of its crumbling. King Feisal is said to be personally responsible for saving the palace and the cultivated land near it. His bodyguard, under his supervision and spurred on by encouraging strains from an Arab band, repaired damage to the embankment encircling the royal property...
Other institutions, less in the world's eye, cherish their idols without fear of comment or reproach. Generations of Annapolis men have worshipped the famous "Tecumseh, god of the passing mark," while the destinies of Amherst are shaped by that elusive goddess, the "Fair Sabrina," who appears to mortal eyes at yearly intervals. At Harvard, there is no god except the Subway rotunda, but since this is not generally known, it has given the "American" few headline thrills...
...anything else, is that heed is given to it in a small proportion in the student body in some colleges. In fact, in some of them, the faculty are notoriously pacifist. A study of history will quickly point out the danger of such pacificism, which surely points to the fear that the sacrifices of the next generation will be even more than the unpardonable sacrifices suffered by America in the past war due to our smug complacency of unpreparedness...
Even more remarkable as showing that this satisfactory standing is not wholly caused by the fear of ineligibility through probation, are the percentages of these men who achieved standings which place them in the first three groups. There again the parallel holds with once more a slight advantage on behalf of those who have taken part in major sports...
...Fear that the present good trade will not continue and reluctance to make commitments at still higher prices, how ever, are not had signs at this phase of the business cycle. So long as a conservative attitude dominates the general business community, the prospect of continued healthy advance remains. This attitude promises restraint of undue expansion and therefore sustains the belief that the present good business will not prove short-lived. In manufacturing industries the physical volume of production is now slightly greater than it was at the end of 1919 or the beginning of 1920: but if allowance...