Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy with work for Roosevelt to take care of his consti-tuents." Quail 'Legging. Some political observers concluded that Pat Harrison was considerably perturbed about his coming election fight when they heard a story which angry wildlife conservationists were telling last week. Source of vast alarm to sportsmen and conservationists in recent years has been quail bootlegging, which grew up as an organized racket in Mississippi shortly after the War, has since spread to neighboring states and is seriously depleting the South's supply of its most popular game bird. Quail are trapped by farmers, bought by racketeers...
Last week another Johns Hopkins pathologist, Dr. Dean Howard Affleck, 30, took up Dr. Bloodgood's megaphone and through the American Journal of Cancer sounded the same alarm...
Fire burning between the walls slightly damaged a rooming house at 20 Holyoke Street yesterday afternoon. Responding to an alarm the Cambridge fire department quickly extinguished the blaze...
...situation grew more tense. Dore felt the outcome would be grisly. Principal cause for alarm was the jealousy between Lorenz, cast-off lover of the Baroness, and Philippson. the present incumbent. Sure enough, one day Dore heard a scream. Next time she saw Lorenz he told a cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses...
...feature of the Popular Front program that stirred the most alarm was a vague proposal to nationalize the Bank of France. Founded in 1800 by Napoleon, the Bank of France is not only a sacred symbol of French capitalism; it is to an astonishing degree French capitalism itself. It is a private institution owned by more than 40,000 stockholders. Yet it holds all of France's enormous gold hoard except that privately stored in mattresses and old socks. The French Government owns not a centime of monetary metal. The Bank of France has the sole privilege of issuing...