Word: lest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplanes, headed for landing fields in the interior of France. Many of the troops found their own way of disposing of small arms. They shot their cartridges away at birds and tin cans, tossed their grenades into ditches in such numbers that many a French child was kept indoors lest he pick one up, pull the pin and kill himself...
...time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine." "I look upon them (mankind) only as instruments upon which I play when I feel so disposed...
...successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...Brooks's still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...
...entire U. S. industrial system, "a vast and complex organic growth," was last week laid out on a long slab in the marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building for examination piercing and profound. Lest the gigantic creature cry out or have hysterics, it was at once given a general anesthetic. Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney of Wyoming, chairman of the Temporary National Economic Committee created last spring by Presidential message and joint Congressional action, had already administered repeated injections of soothing reassurance, viz: "This is not a punitive investigation. ... I don't believe in centralized planning...