Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the British Cabinet yield to none in their alarm at the now chronic reluctance of young men to enlist in the British Army (TIME, Nov. 30 et ante), the alleged advice of Herr von Ribbentrop to Herr Hitler was really too much for them to stomach. In London last week being feted was Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland, and his English hosts had to do or say something. Up at an International Chamber of Commerce luncheon for Premier van Zeeland got handsome and willowy young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to utter words braver and bolder than...
Refusing to become excited over Saturday's minor conflagration on Mt. Auburn Street where nobody seemed to know the exact location of the nearest alarm box, Lehman Hall officials said yesterday that they would probably stand pat on their present platform of fire prevention and student fire education...
...Houses, which are fireproof. In the upper-class dormitories not only are there a large number of telephones, but also in each janitor's office is a map of Cambridge's 15 Harvard boxes, while the caretakers are themselves instructed in the fine points of ringing in an alarm...
...would be pure narrowness to expect this feeling to appear in the form of accords or agreements of any specific kind. The freer President Roosevelt is from the quarrels and doctrines of other nations the greater his authority will be on the day when he sounds an alarm or attempts to call a halt...
Giles found a box on Massachusetts Avenue by Beck Hall and turned in an alarm. Meyers went to the second floor from which two children and two adults were escorted to safety...