Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...politicians who are maintained out of the public treasury, or those whose ancestors amassed the fortunes on which their descendants live? How would we vote in Cambridge? We would vote for a city government calculated to give a sound administration of the city's business. Is Cambridge afraid we would vote for extravagant expenditures on public works? Thousands of day laborers who pay no more than a poll tax would vote for them too, in order to get a chance to work on them. And the public improvements are needed too. We do not want to be so-journeys...
...hopes in Roosevelt have had a discouraging experience which has undoubtedly caused a great many of them to lose heart. Within the Republican party, the reactionary forces, represented by such men as Penrose, Lodge and Barnes, are completely victorious. These men are sincere and able statesmen. They are sincerely afraid of "mobs" and they sincerely believe in the divine right...
...closing the debate for the Democrats, H. Epstein 1L stated that "Roosevelt and Taft did not remedy the state of affairs because they were afraid, but left it for Wilson to do, hoping that they might thereby secure good campaign talk...
...editorials the most interesting point is the suggestion that Freshmen often fail to make the right choice of a field for concentration because they are afraid to find the courses on subjects that interest them too difficult. This seems surprising, and one wonders who gives them their ideas of the comparative difficulty of courses. One wonders, too, what kind of recognition the editor thinks that the rest of the College should give to the Harvard Poetry Society. Is not membership in such a society its own reward? Do the members really have any grievance, or feel that they are "Forced...
...Afraid of new injuries to the University team, Coach Haughton sent an entirely second string eleven on the field to contest with Brown. Friction in the mechanism of the attack used by the University substitutes deprived the team of the greater part of its efficiency, and a deplorable mediocrity in the drop-kicking department spoiled whatever chances the second string men had to score. Brown played a conservative and dogged game, holding the University to a 0 to 0 tie score, because of the perseverance of their defence and the brilliant playing of Gordon and Clark in the backfield...