Word: lest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass by the dog nuzzled her sleeve, seized her tippet, trotted beside, baying. Alarmed, the pedestrian, Gunaelia Lovenskiolde, charwoman, aged 72, took flight, stumbled screaming, fell heavily, lay motionless and silent. The dog lay down beside, where its owner, Olaf Stang, found it on his way home. Fearful lest the dog get chilled, he led it to his hovel, locked it in, before assisting the unconscious woman. Neighbors witnessing, had Olaf arrested "for loving his dog better than his neighbor...
...into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel. This element feared lest Distinction and Bon Ton, like old pieces of furniture left behind by the moving men, should grow dusty in the deserted edifice while in the new one-too big to be exclusive-quality rubbed shoulders with people who were merely rich. Again Mr. Kahn came to the fore. He persuaded...
...Study of the effects of leaded gasoline (and of carbon monoxide hazards in garages) should be continued, lest chronic degenerative diseases of unobvious character be setting in slowly...
...surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach morals lest they create a distaste for virtue", applies also to education, and with unmitigated thoroughness...
...shared with Mr. Slocum his regret that it so frankly preferred gloom to glee but in recent years its quality has deteriorated so that now several glee clubs hereabouts have vanquished it in fair combat. Certainly, a healthy sporting spirit would have led it to continue in competition at lest till it had regained its lost laurels...