Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear there is and once more high finance exhibits its colossal stupidity and ostrich-like behavior when faced with a new situation. Whether the failure of investment to keep pace with the general upswing has been due to calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
There is reason to believe that the President would like to reassure capital that it has nothing to fear, or rather that its fears as expressed in the recent flight of money abroad are groundless, but the difficulty is that anything said publicly about monetary policy may reveal the purposes of the government as to ultimate stabilization and the administration does not feel the price level has risen sufficiently to stabilize...
According to leaks from the parley, Salesman Cox said to Prospect Bonnet: ''I can show you that your fears are groundless. Here, my good friend, let me put all my cards on the table and explain. You do not understand America's position or what she is trying to do. The United States is having its first taste of prosperity in three years. That cannot be jeopardized...
...fortnight ago plans for the sale were considered at a meeting of the House Masters. It was understood at the time that University authorities had applied for a permit to sell the beverage, information which later proved groundless...
...prosperous as its highbred with its delicate humor, the felicity and urbanity of its occasional hoaxes, its sedulous devotion to the high standards set by its founders--such men as Judge Robert Grant, former Ambassador Stimson and Edward S. Martin--entitle it to be. Fortunately, those apprehensions were groundless...