Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole the day was spent pleasantly enough, families finding amusement in shouting to each other across the streets, joking and laughing, while the children invented new games and, without fear, postured insultingly at their enemies...
...Diabetic patients who are gripped with a form of fear from an overdose of insulin may have their courage immediately restored by sucking a lollypop...
Challenge. Said the New York Times in an editorial: "We need not be frightened by this apparent threat. . . . The European challenge is essentially one to American brains. Our . . . chemists must redouble their zeal. . . . Our chemical industry really has no more reason to fear Europe than has our steel industry, always provided that we are ready to draw our belts tighter and go into the competitive struggle with all that we have to give...
Remarks by Mr. Spender: ¶"Americans are the most talked about and the most criticized people in the world." ¶"Undoubtedly true that the press quarrels which raged in Europe before the War contributed heavily to the fear, suspicion and embitterment which finally brought about the great disaster...
...collection of books connected either through ownership or authorship with one man--Coleridge. During the winter of 1924-25 he had already given a rather large number of his books, annotated of written by the poet, to the library, writing at about the same time, "I much fear you will be disappointed in the quality of the Coleridge items, but shall be a very happy person indeed were any of this material to prove of the smallest help to Professor Lowes in his forthcoming book." This "forth-coming book" was the recently published Road to Xanadu. And indeed, in writing...