Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cantonese had so often been announced to be at the gates, on a false alarm, that when they arrived, last week, their coming was almost an anticlimax. There was no fighting. The defenders, a miserable rabble of mercenaries, had simply fled back from the previous scene of battle; and, as they scattered to hide as best they could, the Cantonese Nationalist columns trudged in. As they billeted themselves in the Chinese City, British soldiers and marines paced with fixed bayonets outside the barbed-wire-defended Occidental City. They saw their first real action when retreating soldiers...
...alarm clock...
...Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount of his breakfast by a quarter of a dollar. Bright eyed and mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other...
...present alarm may not unfairly be laid to a much less deep-seated reason than most of those advanced, namely--newspaper publicity. During the past decade colleges have become news. Nor has newspaper interest in them helped their reputation. For they have become news much as Peaches Browning and Gertrude Ederle are news. It is nothing new to say that most of the evils of college football can be laid to the newspapers which magnify the sport and deify the players beyond all reason. A Los Angeles newspaper proclaimed Harvard's recent imbroglio in three inch headlines across the front...
Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...