Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Union lost-and-found department, located in the downstairs check-room, keeps track of the hats and coats misplaced by Freshmen. These timid souls, who advertise on the bulletin-board. "Will the person who took BY MISTAKE a gray felt hat" usually find the lost article in the downstairs check-room, which returned over five hundred hats last year...
This recantation came too late. It gave fresh courage to the timid but stubborn host of Protestants who for more than a year have been struggling for their faith. All last week lay Nazi leaders poured into Berlin bringing sheaves of petitions to the Realmleader. On coarse paper pious peasants had squiggled their names by the thousand. Adolf Hitler's head, if not his teeth, must certainly have ached...
...first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join the socialists. Murderer Quinette, still undiscovered, finds out from a detective why his crime was never reported...
There was no doubt about it: the U. S. was seeing within its own frontiers what has come to be a commonplace of Europe?vast sums of timid money skittering out of a country at the first rumor of devaluation or rebellion. By last week the flight of capital from sunny California and the EPIC plans of its Democratic nominee for Governor had become a major market factor...
Superintendents: The most timid of public officials...