Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese net tightened some of the soldiers went nearly crazy with fear. I saw one suddenly seize a bicycle and dash madly in the direction of the advancing Japanese vanguard, then only a few hundred yards distant. When a pedestrian warned him of his peril he turned swiftly about and dashed in the opposite direction. Suddenly he leaped from his bicycle and threw himself at a civilian and when I last saw him he was trying to rip the clothes from the man's back, at the same time shedding his own uniform...
Private messages from Hankow, where Chinese censors worked overtime on news dispatches, reported that Chinese statesmen of the Kuomintang or National People's Party who set up the Government over ten years ago (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante) "now fear the common people of China more than they do the Japanese, and would compromise with Japan . . . but the Communists are firm for resistance." A censored Hankow dispatch quoted Kuomintang Central Political Council Chairman Wang Ching-wei as announcing: "In the event that the Communist Party at any time revives the Class Struggle, there will be danger...
...Fear reigned last night in Hanover that when the Dartmouth Carnival opens today, there will be no snow to welcome the zealous skiers. If no snow comes, it will be the first time in the history of the Carnival. According to weather predictions last night, the Big Green may still be saved by a local blizzard...
...themselves to be disinterested and impartial. This is an attitude worthy of Harvard, and in view of the loose talk prevalent today, it should be brought to the public's attention by some responsible agency with all possible speed. The University has observed the law and has nothing to fear from...
...thirty second annual report of the Carnegie Foundation sharply condemned the "unfair recruiting" of students by colleges, and stated that "many institutions of higher learning operate today in constant fear of losing tuition-paying students." The report revealed that almost all colleges claimed to have a "new education," a "new plan" and even a "new deal" for education. One high school in the middle west reported that over eighty-five public-relations officers, for as many colleges, had paid visits to the school, and endeavoured to persuade students to go to the college which they happened to represent...