Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrested for another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism of the defendants at a time when the public mind was in a state bordering on panic fear of alien revolutionaries. They were convicted, motions for a new trial were denied by the trial judge, and an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court based on the denial of these motions and on errors of law alleged to have been committed at the trial, was dismissed...
...Fear hag-rode the U. S. Army Transport Chateau Thierry into San Francisco last week. Mumps, influenza and Death were aboard, and at San Francisco were hospitals. The boat had left Brooklyn a fortnight before. On it were 125 first-class passengers, including 13 members of the U. S. House of Representatives. There were also 950 enlisted men under command of Brigadier General Henry G. Learnard who was to transship some of his detachment at Honolulu for service in China. The ship's crew numbered 147. Altogether there were some 1,200 people on board, and three Army doctors...
...bottle of famed C. C.* pills was set aside and the bottle of aspirin tablets put ready. Sick men went to bed until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...
Harvard has been slow to encourage and aid enthusiasts of glove and canvas despite a steadily increasing interest shown during the past few years. The chief objection to boxing as a form of intercollegiate activity has emanated from the stigma attached to the professional "fight" game, and the fear that unfriendly feeling among rival spectators would be aroused and fostered by the sight of men "fighting" in the ring. Opposition to the sport on the grounds that it lends itself to instances of brutality and unnecessary injury to the participants is to be considered less seriously. These evils...
...Resolved: That there is more to hope than to fear from science", is the subject of this year's Freshman triangular debate to be held tonight in each of the three Universities, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The debate in Cambridge will be staged between the Yale Freshman affirmative team and the Harvard first-year negative team. In Smith Halls Common Room at 8 o'clock E. G. Mantle, '27, Secretary of the Debating Council and a member of the University debating team, will preside...