Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning to Japan after a four-month tour of the U. S.,Haruko Ichikawa, Japanese author (Japanese Lady in Europe), announced in Tokyo: "American women are proud and arrogant. The men are timid before them to the point of foolishness...
...Albert Einstein of today is no longer the timid bewildered man who visited the U. S. in 1930. He has acquired considerable poise in public, is not so afraid of the world as he used to be, entertains frequently. He has learned that it is not necessary to associate with anyone whom he does not like and trust. His telephone number is not listed and the telephone company will not furnish it. He leads the kind of life he likes and the U. S. suits him very well...
...INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY-P. W. Bridgman-Macmillan ($2.50). RETREAT FROM REASON-Lancelot T. Hogben-Random House ($1). By the centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
...here the timid, faithless demagogue...
...Said a timid voice inside: "Did you say you're the law?" It was the voice of a Mr. George Weinberg, who was living with Dixie and his doxie in their hideout. Mr. Dewey had been looking around for Mr. Weinberg...