Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank officers view with alarm deposit guarantee and inflation...
...across the map of Spain little bands of anarchists and syndicalists were declaring general strikes, raising red and black flags, setting fire to convents and churches, taking pot shots at Civil Guards and soldiers. Troops were mobilized through most of Spain. Premier Diego Martinez Barrios declared a "State of Alarm," which he explained was not martial law, but the next thing...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
Nearly one-third of all New York's deliveries were in the home. Less than one-sixth of the preventable deaths occurred there. Granting that home deliveries are usually normal ones, the committee yet found cause for alarm in the failure of hospitalization to reduce puerperal infection, death...
...where the rest of his day is passed; he will then return to spend the evening over work for any or all of his four courses, or in preparing for one of the frequent science course quizzes, and will finally drop into bed with the loud ticks of the alarm clock beating on his weary and tortured brain. On the other hand, there are men who refuse to sacrifice all for science. Although they do an amount of work which would be considered satisfactory in most other fields, in Chemistry or Biology they miss about half the course...