Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper printed. In fact it might have been an Old Testament Sabbath from all accounts, save for the crowds in the streets. Furthermore, the response to an appeal from the Irish Bishops for a popular demand for the treaty has elicited little response, apparently because of the cloud of fear which is over the whole land. Even an Irishman, or at least some of them, seem to know when enough is enough...
...been recently stated, and in large measure proved, that insanity is due to the abnormal development of some one characteristic of the human mind. Where fear, where anger, where greed, or any one of a "number of things" is unduly predominant, there is insanity. The normal mind is that in which none of its attributes is overwhelmed by any of the rest...
...exempted Seniors from tests in the coming two weeks and others have extended the time limit for Seniors on term reports. If this were made a general custom the back of the pre-Divisional grind would be broken. The main objection, apparently, that has prevented such action is the fear that a precedent would be established giving the students an opening for further letting down of the bars. There seems to be no real grounds for such a fear. If a fretting horse is given free rein, it does not mean he is running away, as long as the means...
...career of this "stormy petrel" of politics has been one to inspire both respect and fear. Beginning as an uneducated bandit of Manchuria, he rose rapidly to the command of the "hung hutze" or banditti, by force of personality. After aiding Japan in the war with Russia he surrendered to the Chinese government on very favorable terms. His followers became government troops and his promotion to the post of Military Governor was rapid, partially by virtue of good service to the Republic and partly no doubt by reason of the continued loyalty of his troops to their leader...
...competitions, were forced either out of existence entirely or to scrap its early ideals and life-long traditions." And we agree entirely, although to do so may seem inconsistent with the impression of our attitude that our correspondent has. The latter speaks of the "new tendency" and our apparent fear or contempt of it. "We are" says Cyril, "afraid of nothing; and as for contempt, that is a snobbish feeling, and snobbery arises out of fear that someone will discover one's inferiority. Ergo, we admit no contempt...