Word: scared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third Harvard speaker, Wilbur Morse, spoke earnestly and distinctly with much force and persuasion. He said that as long as we keep our position under the Monroe doctrine as protector of the South American republics, they act as colonies. As to our love for England, the war scare last December did not show it. As to our navy, the present rate of increase is not adequate. As for torpedo boats they must be classed with the sea-going navy. Furthermore a large and immediate increase in the navy is demanded as an insurance for the property invested in the coast...
...Maine boundary, for over 40 years a source of great irritation between England and the United States, was submitted to arbitration, though finally settled by treaty. Such delay enables the jingoes to seize upon disputes, harmless in themselves, and to magnify them until they have created a veritable war scare with all its moral and material consequences. Further the practice of allowing cases even of minor importance, to drag on unsetted only increases the irritation between the two countries and endangers the peaceful settlement of graver disputes...
...good many letters have been received here in Cambridge during the last week asking about the scarlet fever scare. These letters have been founded on a rumor which has been going the rounds of newspapers in the West that Harvard was suffering from an epidemic of scarlet fever and was liable any day to close her gates for an indefinite period. This report started, of course, as most rumors of the kind do, from some careless remark, or was built by the newspapers into an elaborate story from the simple fact that about a month ago there was one case...