Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaching Zagreb, six masked men ducked from a vestibule into the mail car, trussed its French guardian, locked him in the cabinet, and methodically went through eleven sacks of mail. What, if anything, they abstracted remained a mystery. When the Orient reached Zagreb the Frenchman kicked loose, raised an alarm, but the bandits had vanished...
...Freshmen applying for the less than 700 vacancies, the cries of indignation from the large number of students who are bound to be disappointed will ring loud and unmistakable throughout the Yard. Although the prospect of becoming one of the "forgotten men" of Little and Claverly will naturally alarm rejected applicants, they will do well to make an effort to understand the conditions before racing indignantly wild-eyed to a group of unfortunate men who would like nothing better than to make every student of Harvard College a member of the House Plan...
While it is true that Japanese imports have sharply increased, Washington observers cannot share the general alarm, with which the textile industry is at present stricken. Japan has long been our best customer for raw cotton, and through our high protection, textile exports in recent years have been from five to ten times the value of imports. Even if Japanese imports continue at the new high level reached in January and February of this year, they will still amount to only 7-10 of one per cent of domestic production...
...present rate of expenditure were continued, and a continued and sustained downward trend would seriously threaten the entire athletic program. With the uncertainties of the present economic situation, no one charged with the responsibility of the finances of this University can face such a possibility with anything but alarm. A hand to mouth policy is no solution. The only satisfactory answer is to be found in drastic reductions in expenses and a sustained effort to build up an endowment fund...
...from picket lines, loudspeaker trucks, radio stations and a furious sheetlet called The Reporter, until the Ledger marched into court and obtained an injunction against the strikers. So sweeping was the injunction, that even such non-sympathizers as the New York Times and Herald Tribune viewed it with open alarm. To circumvent the court order, non-professional friends of the strikers proceeded to picket the stores with carefully inoffensive signs simply stating that the strikers had been enjoined and that the stores advertised in the Ledger. Publisher Russell sent out counter-pickets with signs explaining that the stores advertised...