Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary then informed reporters that he could tell them nothing more because it took so long to decode Admiral Williams' messages that before one could be decoded another arrived. One report, when finally decoded, was found so terrifying that Mr. Kellogg withheld it from the public to avoid undue alarm...
Ruffling their programs in alarm, jaded listeners read: "I. The Pageant of P. T. Barnum? Douglas Moore...
Roger W. Babson, statistician, big-business-builder, efficiency expert, lately declared: "Higher education today is living in a fool's paradise." He represented that most of his business acquaintances viewed college-trained job-seekers with actual alarm. To find out if this could be generally true, President Simon S. Baker of Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) made a pilgrimage to Manhattan, where he interviewed employers and employment agencies from J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Carnegie Foundation on down. Last week President Baker announced that, to his great surprise, much that Mr. Babson had said received wide endorsement. President...
Such reasoning caused a flare of protest in Mexico, in South America, in Europe. Last week alarm was sounded in Washington. President Coolidge's Official Spokesman said that he was deeply concerned. He called for Secretaries Kellogg and Wilbur; they conferred for two hours. Nothing was announced. Rear Admiral Latimer remained on duty in Nicaragua. Senators and outsiders kept the question heated...
...front door he faced two pistols. The gentlemen told him not to make a noise. While they were going through his pockets Contractor Dobbin's baby toddled into the vestibule. Mr. Dobbin told the baby to go upsairs. "Then," says Mr. Dobbin, "in order not to alarm my wife, I told the men to talk about business. The smaller of the two, who seemed to have a pretty good education, said...