Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station which received its baptism last Sunday when an alarm pulled in by Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 of Cambridge, sent the fire engines hurrying from all parts of the city to their new home, is considered as the very latest in modern central fire stations. It was built at a cost of $162,000, and is a part of the $7,000,000 construction program inaugurated by Mayor Russell five years ago when he took office. The cost of the building is rated at 35 cents per cubic foot, as compared with a cost of from...
What happens in this next of mechanical appliances when a fire breaks out in the city? First of all when the alarm is sounded, the call coming to the new station opens the doors automatically. If the man in charge of the office that is the control room of the fire house wishes to open the doors at any other time, the only work he has to do is to press a button, and behold, the electrical magician gets to work and opens them both swiftly and noiselessly...
...When the alarm rings at night; in addition to opening the doors and changing the lights, it turns on all the lights, it turns on all the lights inside the station. This is accomplished by an inside alarm system which arouses the sleeping fire-fighters. But the firemen are not awakened without sufficient reason, for a selective device refuses to allow the inside alarm to ring unless the call comes from within the district covered by the Central Fire Station...
Grapevine information from the remoter parishes of Louisiana indicates that Senator Long's constituents are not disposed to take undue alarm at the Harvard Liberal Club's call to arms. Some of those constituents were indeed disturbed not long ago by word that one lone New Yorker had whanged the Senator in the eye and got away with it, but when he explained that he was ganged by four or five ruffians his loyal supporters said that was all right, a thing, which might happen to anybody. There is no intimation that the Harvard Liberal Club intends...
Since Mr. Hurley is an elected official, dependent on the voting public, it is not unreasonable to suppose that he is conducting the investigation in a manner calculated to arouse and alarm his constituency. Mr. Gill has been forced to take to the political field in self defense against his attacker's storm of criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers...