Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill acted with instant decision, and extinguished the Labor attack by announcing that he had decided, overnight, to exempt kerosene from the tax, which, however, will still bear on gasoline. Well pleased at the flurry caused by his announcement, Mr. Churchill added: "His Majesty's Government have no fear that motorists will evade the tax on gasoline by attempting to use kerosene. They would do more harm to their engines than to the Exchequer...
...resignation to evil is in Shylock's limbs, and that this play is leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow, no last, wild "Jessica!" He waits, one hand in his old brown gown, even drifts into reverie. He knocks again, no louder. As his knuckles strike, the curtain slowly falls...
...must depend consistently on what New York may send them. The times are ripe for some pioneer to do for Boston what the Guild, the Civic Repertory, and Mr. Hampden have done for New York: and, if the attitude of the public is an accurate indication, he need not fear failure...
...Millikan pooh-poohed the fear of more timid citizens and blasted the hopes of more venturesome engineers. Man can never use the atom as a source of power or destruction by exploding and releasing its energy. This happens in Nature's laboratory; can be observed, measured, photographed; but the atoms available for the experimental laboratory are already in a fairly stable form. Splitting them up would require more power than they would set free...
...ulterior motives for this interest). Airplanes are a commonplace; the single shells have been on the river for weeks; roadsters gleaming with nickel are not rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates. And so, when Charlle Paddock comes to the Stadium this week, he need have no fear that his ninety-five records will attract only a handful of track men and a bored reporter. The Stadium will not give a hollow echo to the spikes, for herocpass, but some remnants of hero-worship are not to be destroyed even by a four-year course in indifference...