Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised...
...from what they should be both in food and the price of food. Furthermore, it can suggest that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine gender, for modern man has a certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that the cafeteria tray be taken from the shelf...
Plain Sam Raingo, multimillionaire, British, unimaginative, "wangles a seat in Lords" and a minister from the "P. M." (Prime Minister). His meteoric rise in popular esteem, fear of the P. M.'s jealousy, ultimate confusion of his adversaries, loss of his mistress, and death from pneumonia fill two weeks and 393 pages. The last third of the book describes his death from every angle...
...boys dropped over for a little provender. They took five Dunhill pipes, a mecrschaum, a siphon, and a Dunhill lady lighter, or rather a lighter made by Dunhill for ladies. Much as I would like to believe in the latter as an explanation, I must confess to a fear that this is but another spiteful attack by some sinister and hidden enemy...
...from ordinary tables, box scores and bond quotation lists will prove equal to the task of supporting an annual change of time. At any rate the people have received a new right of untold possibilities, for now they can set their clocks when and where they choose with no fear of chiding from a law-stricken conscience...