Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When you tried to frighten us and failed...
...unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a rattlesnake. "Death Valley", that California waste of bleached bones and sunstroke, is the locality chosen by one of the unpleasanter characters in which to frighten his wife to death...
...come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens, and then the mine guards begin to patrol the highways. They search passersby, they frighten women, they boast and are hardboiled, as professional scabs and company detectives usually...
...title frighten you. It is a very accurate name that introduces one of the most delightful little books that has been written in many a day. Although the subject is the politics of a university, the description might well apply to any politics. But it would be foolish to try to point out the ways in which the book could be applied to other fields; nothing could improve it. Never was a more subtle, more penetrating, more ironical cosmography written...
...entrance requirements here, which are unlike those of almost any other college, so peculiar in their demands as to frighten off a large number of prospective students? Is it Harvard's reputation in most point west of Buffalo, of being a "sissy" place which makes many men feel it undesirable to attend college here? Is our arrangement of vacations so unfavorable to the man living at a distance from Cambridge as to be an important factor in his decision regarding a choice of college? Is our athletic policy, which discourages long trips for return games, save under exceptional circumstances...