Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wedding. The trump card is twenty billion dollars, which we are told, would be thrown into factory expension at the drop of a hat. The hat is the Roosevelt social reform program. But if Frank Lloyd Wright is to be believed when he says that there is nothing so timid as a million dollars, the reticence of twenty billion hardly needs description...
...timid to arraign Germany by name before the League, the Conference shoved off that duty upon France (see p. 20) but vented its feelings thus: "It was regretfully recognized that the method of unilateral repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts...
...demands are met, he will destroy the mine. The company's officials take him at his word. When Black Fury opened in Manhattan last week, it was advertised by its producers and hailed by critics as "courageous." This indicated two sad facts: 1) Hollywood cinemagnates are so pathologically timid that they consider it almost heroic to break their senseless taboo against discussing such matters as labor troubles; 2) cinema critics are so dazed by the long sequence of films showing how love will find a way that, when they encounter anything else, they are unable to decipher it. Actually...
...story centers around one Vachette, a timid economical library clerk. Having met a bowitching Parisian lady for a few moments, he imagines her his mistress and invents numerous devices to prove it to his library associates...
...absolute right to go to Harvard." The self satisfied intellectually stimulated student who is enjoying Harvard superiority or the timid and aspiring candidate for admission who anticipates the magnificence of the University has no absolute claim to membership in the college...