Word: timidly
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...message touched conventionally on foreign relations, taking the Senate's ratification of the Kellogg treaty for granted. Again the cruiser bill was urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government...
Silence came upon the auditorium crowd. Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, physicist for the Bell Telephone Laboratories and one of the inventors of television, nervously approached Professor Michelson and in a timid-seeming voice presented him with the Optical Society's Frederick Ives Medal. Dr. Ives gave the Society money for the biennial presentation of the medal in memory of his father, the late Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor of photoengraving...
...idea of Promoter Pickens that the world of sport, like a modern marathon, moves in cycles. The time has now come for a resuscitation of long distance running; the best long distance runner in the world is this jolly timid Algerian, who cannot speak a word of English and shakes hands in a complicated. North African fashion. Promoter Pickens chose him to make the marathon famous again...
...Bureaucracy does not tolerate the spirit of independence; it spreads the spirit of submission into our daily life and penetrates the temper of our people not with the habit of powerful resistance to wrong but with the habit of timid acceptance of irresistible might...
...powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud of her products, noted for their active qualities, making the skin tingle. At her shop, min-istrants to beauty smile when a newcomer tries an application. "Timid women," they 'remark, "are-terrified...