Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alarm is felt for the condition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is seriously ill with pneumonia...
...fire alarm from box 71 last evening was caused by a slight fire in a barn on Tannery street, North Cambridge...
...local option movement in Virginia is assuming formidable proportions, and is creating serious alarm in certain political circles. The question will be made an important issue in the November election...
...causes leading up to this, date back as far as July, 1881, when the Academica published an article entitled "The Rector's Case," setting forth nineteen causes of complaint against Thomas Vickers, any one of which, if established, was sufficient to show his unfitness for the rectorship. In alarm Vickers rushed into contemporaneous print, and accused students, alumni, directors, members of the faculty, and citizens, of conspiring to break down his reputation and destroy the university. Receiving an intimation that the beseigers were about to lay certain petitions before the directorate, asking for an investigation into the consul's management...
...Great alarm is felt in Chicago over the increasing prevalence of small-pox in that city, and the pest houses are filled. Twenty new cases are reported at Pittsburg...