Word: lest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committees. The employers, on the other hand, were willing to admit the principle of collective bargaining, leaving to the employees in each instance the right in choose the agency by which they should be represented. Concerning the public group, Mr. Fish contended that these gentlemen compromised the situation, fearing lest a failure of the present leaders of organized labor would turn that movement over to the I. W. W. and similar Boishevik agitators...
...criticism at all, we do not intend to let the class election issue slumber until it is awakened by another such disgraceful exhibition as that of last Tuesday. The time to propose a remedy is before the painful recollection has died out of the minds of Harvard men, lest we again give occasion for Boston newspapers to seize gleefully upon the chance to hold "Harvard indifference" up before the public...
Such usurpation, however, lasts but a short month. Until then let the inhabitants of the sacred Yard beware lest returning late from revelry they sway from the straight and narrow path, and becoming ensnared in the wire, fall with great force into a seedbed...
Well, enough for now--lest I weary you too much. I think we're going to get a rest for a spell now--after 2 1-2 months of constant jumping. Certainly we need it, as well as the chance to drill our replacements which a trip to rest billets would give, for we've quite a good many new men now--filling the gaps left in our ranks; for since June 1st this regiment has suffered some pretty severe losses--and I believe they're the smallest of any regiment in the division. Yet, as a regiment...
...have enough of egoisms which are mad with the consciousness of themselves. But if the thought of such men is strong and clear, however strange it may seem to us, let us not dare, for the very fear of truth that is in us, to obliterate it, lest we be one with those who crucified righteousness for the cry of the Pharisees and the rabble...