Word: alarmable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visitors in his parlor take too much alarm Jesse Jones hastened to send word to the stockholders of Chicago's First National who met last week to confirm the sale of $25,000,000 of preferred stock to the RFC (an amount precisely equal to their own holdings). His pledge: the RFC would not interfere in the choice of a chairman for their bank, a job that is also vacant. The First National stock- holders believed him, voted to sell the preferred stock...
...treatment for cyanide poisoning (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932). TIME's readers reported cases of methylene blue treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning (TIME, Jan. 16; Dec. 25, 1933). In the A. M. A. Journal referred to above, Drs. Howard W. Haggard & Leon A. Greenberg of Yale University view with alarm such treatment which, they state, is not antidotal for carbon monoxide and may be fatal...
...Show no alarm at growls or barks. They are simply challenges...
...committees, but in those cities that had many museums the chairmanship seemed to fall to the curator who had the greatest sympathy for modernists. The New York Committee, which in the nature of things will have the greatest number of indigent artists to provide for, was viewed with greatest alarm. Smart Mrs. Juliana Force is the widow of a Manhattan dentist and longtime friend of Art Patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. As one of the first members of the Whitney Studio Club and Director of the Whitney Museum she probably knows as many U. S. painters as anyone in the country...
...observer of international affairs does his high-level best to prove that war is imminent, inevitable, that the U. S. will be in it. Observer Simonds does not believe in fairies, the Kellogg Pact or the League of Nations. He views the present state of the world with grim alarm but thinks an open eye better than a buried head. The Europe of 1933. says Simonds. is ''back in the situation and state of mind of July, 1914." After Japan's deliberate flouting of the Kellogg Pact in her conquest of Manchuria, the failure of the Disarmament...