Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholly spoiled. They forget whatever habits of industry they may have had and they cultivate extravagant tastes. If they were learning something the situation wouldn't be so bad, but usually they are the very ones who take the most care not to expose themselves to education for fear that they may catch...
However, looking the present bravely in the face--if certain dear, but over-enthusiastic ladies, and certain learned but we fear misguided gentlemen, insist that Bacchus bow gracefully in exit to Fortuna...
...well exposed by the recent series of events. Most clearly of all is exposed our own fallacy in thinking that the Treaty could ever be self-executing. Without the League, the Treaty possesses no constructive or motive principle; and our own rejection of the League has done much, we fear, toward causing the present difficulties...
...banter at the expense of the Volstead supporters. While there is no real danger, (or hope, as the case may lie), of any immediate repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the fact that the prohibitionists have ceased their foreign campaign, and are rallying their forces at home, shows that they fear a 'too' liberal interpretation...
Those who entertain any doubt as to the wisdom of general military training, are, first, those who feel that it is an unnecessary expense and, therefore, an undesirable addition to the burden of taxation; and second, those who fear the tendency to militarism. To the first, it can only be said that each must balance the question of cost against his estimate of the possible need. As to the second, it can fairly be said that democracy is no longer an experiment in America; that the successes of a hundred years have established traditions which our daily association perpetuates...