Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not the President's naval disarmament plan was aimed at the three cruisers is another question. "Big Navy" men in Congress insisted that the U. S. could go ahead and build these ships without any fear of having them scrapped, because the U. S. was already far behind Great Britain and Japan in cruiser strength.- The appropriation to start construction of these three cruisers had already passed the Senate (TIME, Feb. 14) after being rejected in the House; had gone to conference. Before the President's proposal last week, it seemed certain that the House would...
Concerning the night without oil, Prince Louis de Bourbon of Spain, one of the 551 passengers, said: "We had no fear, even though our feet were cold...
...James Ramsay Macdonald, onetime ( Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier, Leader of the Labor party: "We admit that the British soldiers and marines now en route to China are being sent merely as policemen. . . . But this is a distinction which may not be clear to Chinese minds. . We fear that the British public may go to bed one night with its soldiers acting as policemen in China, and wake up next morning to find them acting as soldiers...
...have us admire his Dionysian god. Briefly, the expositor shows Nietzsche as an excellent example of his own theory that a philosophy is primary an expression of the philosopher's personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according to his own definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly...
...Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives her too and wanders thereafter, unhappy and confused, through the rest of U. S. history, down to the present. His old hatred of death as the source...