Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Hill. "Too young a man," objected the Harvard Overseers, but the Corporation insisted. Alarm followed as 35-year-old President Eliot proceeded, in Oliver Wendell Holmes' words, to "turn the place over like a flapjack...
...from walking any longer-I sat down on the pedestal of the statue of William Tell, which stands in the Pare de Montbenon. My appearance must have been terrible during those terrible moments, for the people who came to inspect the monument scrutinized me with suspicion, almost with alarm. Oh! if De Dominicis had come to preach his moral lessons tome there how gladly I would have laid him out! . . . "I have received your
...Supreme Council of the vigilant Knights of Columbus viewed with alarm Mexican officials who had "insulted, degraded and expelled" U. S. citizens; called upon President Coolidge to put an end to "this ignominious contempt...
...Books, Corpses. Professor J. F. Thorpe viewed with alarm an approaching shortage in the world's supply of gasoline; deplored wasteful U. S. extraction methods, whence comes 70% of the world's supply; vowed that petroleum chemistry has been too little explored. Professor Thorpe likewise viewed with alarm humanity's library and cemetery problems. Cremation would solve the latter, he thought, but it would be too optimistic to expect that it might be judiciously applied to the former. With 23,000 scientific periodicals published in the world annually, "the mind stands appalled at the prospects . . .even...
...established his personal headquarters last week upon an armored train near Peking. Chang, according to his wont, ensconced himself amid urban luxury. Barbarian that he is, he is said to treasure still a cheap Connecticut alarm clock, acquired in his youth under circumstances of good omen. Conferees Swelter. With the approach of Peking's blistering summer the delegates of the nine Washington Treaty Powers, assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2), grew not unnaturally restive last week. The Chang-Wu-fostered Premier of China, Dr. W. W. Yen (TIME, May 10), resigned early in the week, abandoned the farce...