Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While at Walden, Thoreau proved that individual men may overcome wild creature's instinctive fear of humanity. Birds and beasts showed no terror of him and it has been said by enthusiasts that the very fish of the stream would swim unafraid between his fingers...
...Coward" is derived from Old French roots meaning "short-tailed," from the analogy of the timid short-tailed rabbit and the dog which makes its tail less prominent in fear...
...Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, and grandson of U. S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry, signer of: the Declaration of Independence; of heart failure following a broken hip, in Manhattan. As onetime president of the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, he deplored the fact that he inspired fear in juvenile delinquents and was known as the dreaded "Gerry Man." When this idea gradually disappeared, he was delighted...
Uncommercially, the older universities have nothing to fear from Duke. That on the contrary Duke may be counted on to side against retrogressive forces in the South's so-called Bible Belt, was seen last week in an action of its president. Dr. William Preston Few, president of Trinity College (1910-24) and of Duke University since Trinity married a fortune, arose before the education association of the southern wing of the Methodist Episcopal† Church, and obtained almost unanimous support for a resolution: "We . . . here put ourselves on record as opposed to all legislation that would interfere with...
...Neither has married. When not on their private car they live quietly in one of two residences near Cleveland. Pre-eminent in financial circles, they are unknown quantities in so-called "society." Hostesses have sighed, invited them, received polite regrets, sighed, invited them again. They never accept. Perhaps they fear boredom. Perhaps they are merely preserving vitality...