Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common tone of the article and letters is the fear that the present administration is allowing the qualities of character and those described thirty years ago under the head of ethics to be obscured by a modern brand of scholasticism. If we lose sight of this aim in the College, we might as well, to quote the letter of Mr. J. J. Wiggins '12, "Change the name of the old place, and call it "Harvard Square Normal School" or something like that, so that people won't get it confused with what it used...
Since Germany is the only land from which the British public have even the remotest fear of immediate attack, the White Paper referred to Deutschland at some length: "The British Government have noted and welcomed the declarations of leaders in Germany that they desire peace. We cannot, however, fail to recognize that not only their forces, but the spirit in which the population, especially the youth, of their, country are being organized lend color to and substantiate the general feeling which has already been incontestably generated. . . . [German] rearmament, if continued at the present rate, unabated and uncontrolled, will aggravate...
...Brooks, a handsome, comforting physician, is more concerned with the coronary patient's emotions than is Dr. Libman. "Anger, love, fear, hate, surprise more strikingly influence the heart rhythm than any physical factor that we know of," said he. Relaxation, music, diversions, congenial conversation are good for heart cases, prevent anginal attacks. Climate ''is another important consideration. The tropics are good for such patients, also Spain and Egypt. Altitudes may also be advantageously employed, especially as regards wind and air pressure. When the barometer falls, patients invariably come in. Sunshine is a good...
...conduct of international relations, whether commercial or diplomatic. That economic life will suffer goes without saying. The tension under which Europe is now laboring cannot last. It may lessen for as much as a year or two. But economic and social progress is impossible in a world torn with fear, distrust, and staggering under an increasing burden of armaments...
...dream of a warless future, and revert to the limited objective of 'peace in our time.' With such an end in view, we may still turn for counsel to the pre-War system. At its worst, it was less dangerous than a paper facade, which no nation trusts or fears. At present, it seems, nations which should trust are dominated by fear, and those which fear are emboldened. The peoples of the world seem at times to resemble a crowd in a small room, in the center of which one or two lunatics are playing with a bomb. Each...