Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questioned 50 more couples, found the ratio grown to one in three. This year he had repeated his quiz once more. Every other couple, he learned, were as good as married. Conference air grew tense as slim, spry Dr. Dickinson declared: "The doctors are too timid to face the situation. These couples are not promiscuous. Only three had gone beyond the one man-one woman relationship. They are so faithful that they have developed a substandard of morality, such as we would not have believed possible...
...Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched him with an Indian named Chief Cariboo whom Baer knocked out in two rounds. After...
...Derby. By the time the horses lined up at Epsom Downs last week, Sidney Freeman in his Ritz Carlton suite was busy computing what profit the firm stood to make out of his U. S. commitments-over $100,000 for tickets or shares in tickets of timid ticketholders...
...dozen sets. He has designed marine engines for Gar AYood, contemplated making an airplane motor until he lost interest in flying three years ago because he thought it was too dangerous. He never rides in his racing cars, owns a small sedan which he drives with timid caution...
Fortnight ago Mrs. Barron Gift Collier Jr., daughter-in-law of Car-Card Tycoon Collier, answered a telephone call in her Manhattan home, heard a timid voice ask $200 for the return of some stolen letters. Quick-thinking Mrs. Collier demurred, arranged a second telephone talk, then informed police. When a messenger called, Mrs. Collier gave him a bundle of paper instead of $200, later convinced her blackmailer that he had been bilked by his own messenger. Last week she dragged out to ten minutes her sixth telephone conversation with him, was relieved to hear him suddenly plead...