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Word: fears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Europe there were a few signs that fear of immediate war was ebbing. In London war-insurance rates were cut. Belgium discharged one-third of the technical experts recently called to the colors at Antwerp. Generalissimo Francisco Franco demobilized 200,000 Fascist troops. Moreover, it was thought that Dictator Benito Mussolini would scarcely let his beloved daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, sail for Brazil if he were on the warpath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sleep on Haversacks! | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...living. But we know too that the standard of living has a significance more profound than any mere material term would imply. ... A standard of living, based on a high level because of its spiritual as well as its material wellbeing, can never exist in a nation oppressed with fear, prejudice, racial superstition or religious persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Intolerant Mutterings | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...brought out at Suffolk Probate Court yesterday that the late Mrs. Adams, wife of a Boston textile tycoon, before her death last year expressed the fear that Harvard and possibly M.I.T. were fostering radical doctrines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY OUT $1,000,000 DUE TO 'RADICAL' TEACHERS | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

Strong-man Lewis respects the strong men of the coal industry enough to fear that if they ever throw his union into reverse, they might be able to run it out of the coal fields, perhaps with the assistance of other unions which would like to replace it. A. F. of L.'s weak but ambitious Progressive Miners of America would very much like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Humble John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...More likely: the Soviet Union was going to follow an isolationist policy (almost as bad for the British and French). By turning isolationist it would let Herr Hitler know that as long as he keeps away from Russia's vast stretches he need not fear the Red Army. Russia might even supply the Nazis with needed raw materials for conquests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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