Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have certain annual customs, among which is a game, played between them, with Puck. And in this year it was to be played today, were not conditions entirely too bad. But the ice is entirely lacking on the surface, and the Bird is in great fear of getting his feet wet; besides, he likes ice elsewhere than in the rinks by the Charlesbank. And due to the forementioned disaster inside the Ink-Pot, his wings will not carry him, and he must depend on his legs spindly things at best, on which the Bird is not accustomed to stand...
...that, generation after generation, the social inheritance will be improved. The second is the improvement of the organic background whereby the stock may be rendered more sound on its physical side. If these demands of organic and of social inheritance are rightly attended to, humanity need have little fear for the future...
With Germany's policy of "passive resistance" to France daily becoming more active, the world has increasing cause to fear lost the economic war in the Ruhr break into something more desperate. Until recently, the spectators have pursued a strict "hands off" policy. But rumors have begun to reach Paris that Great Britain and the United States are preparing for more active measures to bring about a settlement. Promptly and unmistakably, in reply to these whispers, an unofficial communication from Paris outlines France's position. "The French Government hopes sincerely that neither London nor Washington will attempt intervention of Paris...
...Principle of the Dangerous Precedent that you should not how do an admittedly right action for fear you, or your equally timid successors, should not have the courage to do right in some future case, which, 'ex hypothesi', is essentially different, but superficially resembles the present one. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time...
...considered, incidentally, the part that student opinion can play in any reforms that are to come. The conclusion was reached that undergraduate thought needs only to be unleashed in order to bring about desired reforms, but that at present most of the students are thoughtless, and the inspired ones fear to say what they believe. As a solution, it was urged that every college publication should have a department in which the ideas of any group or individual could be expressed freely, without deference to any authority, faculty or otherwise...