Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rule. Some say that the Dean's office is responsible--others, the Regent; while there are not wanting those who maintain that the whole thing is propaganda fabricated by Local .001 of the United Sisterhood of College Goodies to shorten their hours of labor by encouraging early rising. Fear is expressed that unless the union is broken at once, the emboldened "goodies" will drag us from our beds at earlier and earlier hours, until even the seven o'clock bell will no more disturb our slumbers...
...give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony of his delinquency will never meet the eye of Dean or Regent; but will be efficiently buried forever in the dusty oblivion of lower Massachusetts...
...enough clever men in France, England, Italy, and Belgium, as the International Finance Conference clearly showed, who know the limits of what can be fulfilled. But these states have not the leaders with the civil courage to carry out what they know to be true on account of fear from the disappointment that such action would arouse in their own countries. A war of 4 1-2 years duration and a short-sighted, sinful peace, whose destructive results have wrought a two year's havoc in the whole world, have together brought misery and misfortune to the victors as well...
...which that conditions is being put to make matters even worse. With France unable to object, England is softening the German peace conditions, lowering the Indemnity, and getting possession of the German trade. Theoretically, of course, it would be unwise to burden Germany with too heavy a debt, for fear of an insolvency that might affect the whole of Europe; but inactuality, Germany is in no worse a state than France. There would be far more reason for England to assist her ally in recuperating in some measure from the effects of an invasion, rather than to take...
...Fear Nervous Breakdown...