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Word: alarmable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes, the march of the clowns in Jumbo, while probably causing Richard Strauss no alarm for his laurels, are imaginative and charming be yond the accepted standards of musicomedy music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Vagabond unfolded himself creakily from his bed and silenced an impertinent alarm clock with a mighty blow. The fact that it was a bright morning penetrated his brain, and he wondered why he'd set the clock at all. A blurry glance at his desk calendar told him it was Friday, September 23. Resisting an impulse to say so what, Vag took to scrutinizing his room in order to discover what he was doing semi-awake at the depressing hour of eight-thirty. He noticed a familiar, ugly gray catalogue entitled "Official Register of Harv----." In a flash he understood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

...Football practice was abandoned when a ten foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another chimney plunged through the roof of the School of Education. Slate from Wigglesworth Hall's roof whirled across the street, and is blamed for the breaking of the Cambridge Trust Company's large plate glass window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Storm-Torn Gates Open to 303rd Harvard Class; Many New Freshmen Will Be Delayed by Flood | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...Paris, resolute Premier Edouard Daladier, at last able to convince Britain that she had reason to feel the gravest alarm (see col. 3), rushed French preparations to fight effectively at once, if obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ready | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...make peace in States where primaries were over. For one whole afternoon they rode around the Presidential estate, talking without danger of being overheard. Although Mr. Farley was against the Purge early in the summer and was reported still to view Mr. Roosevelt's recently renewed Purge with alarm, when they came back from the ride it was understood that their differences were reconciled. It was soon afterward announced that Mr. Roosevelt would go into Maryland-to Denton on Sept. 5-to belabor anti-New Deal Senator Tydings, who last week seemed to be leading New Dealer Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morality Lecture | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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