Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken the course of unprecedentedly murderous War I. Meantime, one big plan for Peace II has been shaping up in Anglo-French minds on an unprecedentedly thoughtful and humane pattern. Last week there were signs that the Nazi Government had begun to realize and fear the extent to which millions of Europeans are turning to the Allied formula of ending the war not in victory & defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which any German regime save the Nazis would be welcome. This amounts to inviting a revolution by the German people or a coup...
...simply a matter of keeping up with the Joneses. It is a question of help ing to keep the little Fuller Brush man out of the Joneses' kitchen for fear that he will soon get into everyone's front parlor...
Droning noises may not only destroy the auditory nerve, but also reduce the flow of saliva and gastric juices. Noise, fear, and changing atmospheric pressure (lowered pressure expands intestinal gases, may cause violent cramps) all add up to a second major occupational disease of fliers: "gastric disturbances...
...Altitude Sickness. Identical with seasickness, airsickness is "one of the most important unsolved problems in aviation medicine." Dr. Armstrong believes that it occurs mainly among neurotics who have an unconscious fear of falling. Far more serious is "acute altitude sickness," caused by decrease in the pressure of the oxygen breathed at high altitudes. Altitude sickness, says Dr. Armstrong, is a tough problem. Few people ever feel its painful symptoms while aloft, even though its serious effects may begin at altitudes as low as 9,000 feet. Reason: as the amount and pressure of oxygen breathed is decreased, the senses...
...high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained the fact that this seemed to be England's war-and most U. S. Catholic churchmen are of Irish origin...