Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Patriots may well view with alarm the break in the National Industrial Conference at Washington. It is an event of grave moment in American affairs and may not be dismissed with a word and a hope. Labor has withdrawn from the conference muttering; the representatives of the public seem to side with labor; capital sits tight; and the country waits to see how badly it is to be ground between the upper and the nether millstones...
...welfare of all concerned, and for the dignity of the University, may the seven o'clock bell be abolished! Let the sweet tinkle of the alarm clock, awakening only its owner at whatever time he desires, replace the seven o'clock bell which jars from slumber every man within a quarter-mile radius...
...students who shall have completed at least three-fourths of the requirements for those degrees, and who owing to military service have been unable to complete the entire course." It is further expected that the Corporation will add its deciding vote, thus settling the question and discrediting the indignant alarm of the Boston Globe over the situation...
...tailoring shop in the rear of the third floor of the Harvard Co-operative Society, gutting the entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time the roof had completely gone, together with most...
...have done their best to minimize the recent industrial disturbances. But their very efforts in this direction have served to emphasize the seriousness of the revolt. When the Government finds it necessary to court-martial industrial workers in a building closed to the public and guarded by bayonets, its alarm is great. It may very likely be that bayonets and machine guns may keep the mob of Berlin and other cities in subjection for the time being, but this will not destroy industrial demands and deep dissatisfaction. The Socialist paper "Vorwaerts" is right when it says that this movement comes...