Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After shoes, books, alarm clocks and other articles used on such occasions failed, the victims of the serenades appealed to the Harvard Housing Commission, asking them to prevent the cats from continuing their howling. The Commission sought the aid of the Animal Rescue League of Boston, but was referred by them to the Cambridge Police Force...
...Grant viewed Bishop McConnell with pious but vigorous alarm. In fact, he said, he would like "to set in motion an effort that will speedily rid the Council [Federal Council of Churches] of such a dangerous leader, or to insist upon our church absolutely withdrawing from the Council...
...football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were played with Wright & Ditson (Spalding) balls. And back in the days when the golfer was viewed with scornful alarm, Mr. Julian W. Curtiss, now Spalding president (Mr. Spalding died in 1915), visited London, learned golf, returned with the clubs and balls from which resulted the manufacture of early U. S. golf equipment...
...their undergraduates. Mr. Hawes, a national secretary of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, has drawn on his long experience with American institutions of higher learning to conclude, so he says, that the undergraduates of today are very much like their fathers, and that there is no real cause for alarm among social thinkers in the mental and moral condition of the youth of the land...
...Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock rates the abhorred FF. Shunned by his believing classmates, his allowance cut-off mayhap from home, he is left only the chance of staying in a game with a double ante...