Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...
Flames issuing from the roof of Massachusetts. Hall caused an undergraduate in Matthews to turn in an alarm at 9.15 yesterday morning. Soon after the fire apparatus arrived a crowd of under-graduates and professors, including President Lowell, surrounded the building. Although the conflagation was entirely confined to the rafters, a large part of the building was damaged by water. The total destruction, according to an estimate made by Mr. W. S. Burke, inspector of the grounds and buildings, did not exceed...
...past few years if such a meeting had sat for three hours it could only have been explained by an attack of sleeping sickness or a walkout of the alarm clocks. Last night it was due to the fact that there were too many ideas on too many subjects. The Council is to be congratulated on its activity and its accomplishments. Particularly, since they are what will last, on its accomplishments...
...latest of these nervous persons who view with alarm is Vice President Frederick L. Hoffman of the Babson Institute, who should know better. Speaking in Ford Hall Sunday evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...