Word: timidly
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...business by being undersold. When the complete control of the market is thus secured prices are raised without any limit except the greed of the trust. The very idea of a trust is to abolish competition. Owing to the secrecy observed in regard to profits, outside capital, notoriously timid, is not attracted to the business. Trusts today are in their infancy. The Standard Oil Company has begun to absorb all the interests connected with it, such as pipe factories, coal mines, railroads, etc. The result will be one great company controlling all industries, while the whole people will be reduced...
...with as jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with the timid squeak of the freshmen. People stared and glared and wondered what it all meant, but when informed by the ubiquitous mucked that "Dem was de Hairvards" their wonder and astonishment gave way to admiration. Stories, jokes and songs beguiled the time, until finally the train, puffing and blowing with pride...
...never hesitate to berate a freshman class for negligence in what we decide to be its duties toward the college. When it comes to taking sophomores to account we do not become more timid, but the task grows more disagreeable...
...freshmen rose en masse and shouted like wild Indians. They waved their hats and pounded with their "bangers" until the rest of the audience became timid. The flag remained in full view of the audience for about ten minutes. But this could not last long. The sophomores began to get wind of the affair and they came from all directions and tried to move on the flag. But the faithful supe had secured the flag and made himself very scarce. The sophs could not approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear...
...hear more from you; you have a large field to pick from in the four Harvard papers and your ideas can find expression somewhere if they are worth reading, whether merry light, grave, or newsy. And, ninety, let this same paternal reprimand fall deep into your timid hearts; for what has been said of eighty-nine applies to you as well...