Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward parasitism is not inclined to sustained strenuous effort. Face-saving is our dominant note in the confused symphony of our existence. Our sense of righteousness often is dulled by a desire for personal gain. We lack the superb courage which impels action because it is right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign...
...volume report offering the opinion that such taxation would probably be upheld by the Supreme Court "under the present trend" but should not be made retroactive. Opposition meanwhile gathered quietly in a group of men representing 17 States and called the Conference on State Defense. It was said to fear that the New Deal, having taxed everything from U. S. bonds to U. S. credulity, might next try taxing the States themselves...
...surprised at this turn of events, hinted at other reasons in addition to the pinched economic situation: 1) Recent restoration to power of aristocratic army leaders who, dreading Japanese adoption of Western ways, have from the start opposed the meet and its concurrent influx of Occidentals; 2) Fear of "losing face" in view of the threatened boycott of the Games by Great Britain, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, and probably others. Tokyo said it might ask for the Games...
...With mild irony Mr. Cohen, who is a house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since it did not look as if there was any money in it. Teacher Bibel was divided between his pride in Alfred's progress and his fear that the boy might get a swelled head...
...cast the first stone."* New York City, the indignant reporter found, was the "sweatshop capital of America," its slums squalid and crime-breeding. New England's textile cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more slums and "the universal fear" that industry would move away. In the shadow of Bethlehem's steel mills he saw "filth and depravity" and the same methods that southern manufacturers use to resist unionization. In Washington, he found statistics to show that "low wages, long hours and primitive working conditions can be found anywhere...