Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a great deal of deploring and viewing with alarm concerning the decadence of the Yale spirit. Mr. T. A. D. Jones chairman of the Yale Football Committee reproached the undergraduates of Yale for not turning out to one of these rallies on the eve of the late lamented Yale-Harvard game Sport writers commenting on the game agreed that Mr. Jones emitted a mouthful when he said that the old spirit of Eli was not there...
...this time too he sent first general alarm, as far as is known, a C Q radio signal to other ships meaning "everybody listen." An hour later he sent SOS giving his position. To New York office of Lamport & Holt Line he reported: "During the night developed 32-degree list. Starboard decks under water. Ship lying on beam-ends. Impossible to proceed anywhere. Sea moderately rough...
Inquiry established the fact that the flaming kettles belonged where they were and in fact were necessary to dry out plaster in cold weather. The alarm was attributed to a passing law student who caught sight of flames in the supposedly deserted addition...
...fifth successive week, brokers' loans, last week, reached a new high, mounted to $4,907,164,000. A year ago, they stood at $3,371,705,000. Traditionally, rises in the total of brokers' loans are viewed with alarm (TIME, July 23, et seq.). Reassuring, therefore, were the figures quoted by able Statistician Charles H. Platt (Prince & Whitely, Manhattan investment house), in the bullish Wall Street Journal. Wrote Statistician Platt...
...Hamiltonian sort of person who viewed the People with alarm? Was it by any chance purely a vote-hunting cry? In any case, was it a wise cry, politically? The nub of the Hoover speech was this: during the War, the U. S. Govern ment was centralized, given extraordinary powers over U. S. business, viz., the opera tion of the railroads. After the War, the extraordinary powers were withdrawn, control decentralized. "There has been revived in this campaign, however, a series of proposals which, if adopted, would be a long step towards the abandonment of our American system...