Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German nation, the nine-tenths who follow me. I pray you note this: There are in the life of peoples decisive occasions. France can today, if it wishes, put an end forever to the 'German Peril' which your children from generation to generation have learned to fear. You can remove this formidable mortgage which weighs on the history of France. This chance is now given to you. If you don't seize it, think of your responsibilities before your children. You have before you a Germany, nine-tenths of which has complete confidence in its chief...
...gross exaggeration is the current business credo, reiterated at a thousand banquet tables, that fear of Administration policies has held up capital expansion. With the possible exception of utilities, any U. S. industry would expand if there were discernible markets for additional products...
...HOWLING school lad and burly truck drives alike there exists a common fear, that of the dentist drill rasping through dentine in seeming horrible search for the nerve. No lean scholar is Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of Columbia's dental school, yet from his laboratory he has come forth with a discovery that entailed twenty years of research. As a consequence, the dental bogey man, pain, is now gone, and dentists everywhere are polishing tools for emergence out of the depression. Dr. Hartman has developed a chemical which, applied to the tooth, almost instantly kills its entire capacity for feeling...
...word 'escape' too much in criticism today" was another of Mr. Frost's assertions. "We always seem to be trying to get away from something, and we are always motivated by the fear of not being original, or the fear of seeming foolish; to my mind there is nothing quite so enjoyable as two people winking over something foolish they have said. Instead of all this escaping and negative existence there should be more pursuit--active pursuit of things which are worthwhile...
...then, has the standard of educational independence, a standard which American universities must maintain if the cause of education throughout the world is to continue its objective and unprejudiced progress. As President Dodds remarked, America especially faces the need today for "educated personalities" for the man who will not fear to take a determined stand upon a conclusion which he has reached through his own intelligence, not through an education which predetermines how and what he shall think, as is the case in Germany today. --The Daily Pennsylvanian