Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt several years following graduation spoke of the "spirit" on the paper and feared that this important feature of the CRIMSON would vanish when the location was changed from Mass. Ave. quarters to the Union. He said in part: "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no Punch-nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved more than groundless...
Last week young Physiologist John West Thompson left his bustling Fatigue Laboratory at Harvard, bundled up his new haematometharmozograph, and went to Kansas City. Reason: he wanted to convince the Association of Military and Civilian Flight Surgeons that his ingenious device could efficiently measure fear reactions of pilots...
Haematometharmozograph is a ten-dollar name for a simple two-hundred dollar contrivance made from an electric light bulb, a photoelectric cell and an oscillograph. On the principle that fear constricts small blood vessels in the fingers, prevents blood from freely circulating through the hands, Dr. Thompson rigged up an apparatus which would indirectly show whether blood vessels were constricted by measuring the amount of light which passes through a person's hand...
...fear of trichinosis but simple tabu was responsible for ancient Jewish laws against eating pork. Reason behind the tabu, say modern anthropologists, was that nomadic Jewish tribes could not keep swine, which are "sedentary" animals...
There were those who said Champion Joe would carry John Henry a few rounds because they were pals, fellow Negroes. But those who fight Joe nowadays also fight a terrible fear of what he can do to them, and Joe mowed John Henry down in about the time it takes to tee up and drive a golf ball...