Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alarm Rings...
...that the U. S. Navy immediately steam across the Pacific to blow Tokyo off the map. What was remarkable was that it produced precisely the opposite effect. While the State Department was engaged in sending the sharpest notes since the World War, reaction of the U. S. generally was alarm, not that Japan would go unpunished, but that the offense might somehow involve...
...Sunday-school talk. A year ago Hearst's Pictorial Review decided, after a survey, that its 25-year-old typical reader wants open discussion of problems not usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases. "No Cause for Alarm" in the January 1938 number not only surpasses in boldness its uninhibited predecessors but, more astonishingly is written about men's not women's sexual troubles. Outlining the functions and disturbances of the prostate gland, Miss Davis combined the technique of Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Dix and the American...
...Duplicating Yellowstone's famous landmark, University Hall's own geyser shot skyward at precisely 11 o'clock yesterday morning. A fire alarm bell rang, and, from a hitherto unnoticed well, a huge brown spout of water rose until it showered a squirrel 37 feet distant...
Except in the goalie position, there are innumerable lettermen available. At defense, Ecker was the only loss from last year. But with Hicks, Russ Allen, Charlie Houghton, and Gene Emerson back, there seems to be no cause for immediate alarm. The only drawback is that Allen, still recovering from his injury in the Army game, will probably not be able to participate strenuously until after the Christmas vacation. However, he is expected to be on skates by this Friday...