Word: fear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic logical fault of the policy assumed as inescapable in Dean Ferguson's memorandum is that it undertakes to postulate present action on the basis of essentially unpredictable future events. Out of an apparent overweening fear of the future, it forges gratuitous shackles for the present...
Total construction contracts let in September (F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State report) amounted to $323,227,000, compared to $312,328,000 in August, to $300,900,000 in September 1938. One curious brake on this big advance is contractors' fear that war, if it lasts more than a year, may more than double costs, as it did last time. So they are afraid to bid for jobs taking two years or so to finish. Thus, in New York City last fortnight, only one bid was offered for a whopping new Criminal Courts Building...
With clarity and force the Student Council has raised its voice against the effects of the Administration's present tenure policy. In its statement Tuesday night, the Council decried the inflexibility inherent in the present "up-or-out" hiring and firing rule. And it expressed the fear in the hearts of many teachers and more undergraduates when it noted that "standards of undergraduate teaching are seriously threatened...
...disease spread to a dozen, a score, a hundred. Patients lay moaning in bed. Others, whipped by mad fear, beat against the screened windows, grappled with attendants. Some of the attendants fell ill. All were panicky. Every night kitchen boys and orderlies disappeared. Over 45 ran away...
During the first period, Ayres from his backing-up post was able to stem much of Penn flux through the center of the Crimson front line. When Ayres was removed, the Quaker master-minds were able to work their strategy more effectively. The Crimson backs were pulled in through fear of long runs, and passes were tossed neatly over their heads...