Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abnormalities. The primitive has little conception of, and no confidence in. the orderly processes of Nature, and hence he is not much given to astonishment. He sees marvels every day, and though they may fail to surprise him they may nonetheless scare him almost out of his wits. He is dismayed when a child is born with teeth, or cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly...
...Earth to Burst? Old Dr. Bailey Willis, 78, of Palo Alto, who loves to scare the wits out of "seismophobic" Southern Californians, presented a picture of Earth's history and structure which disquieted many a long-range imagination. The Earth, Dr. Willis suggested, originally was an aggregation of cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other...
...perennially mutinous crews of those two flighty will-o'-the-wisps of the Chinese Navy, the protected cruisers Hai Shen and Hai Chi, last week got the scare of their lives...
RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...
...worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with him. They might have been tempted if bandits had not picked up their trail and given them a bad scare before the federal soldiers drove them...