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...
...comment printed below, the New York Times expresses its editorial alarm at the extent of drunkenness in Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and in "other seats of learning", since the passage of the Volstead Act. It admits that "precise data" is hard to get; but it argues from indications and from "reports". It draws its own inferences, first that prohibition in general is a failure in the colleges and second that college authorities should take it upon themselves to eradicate all drinking and drunkenness among students. For, it says, in the good old days there was little or no trouble...
...Murphy, each of whom holds the Democratic politics of a state (Illinois, Indiana, New York) securely between thumb and forefinger. They are known to be gentlemen who view with alarm the candidacy of William...
...Much alarm was evinced in Paris over the decline in the franc, which touched the lowest point in its history at 19.23 to the dollar. Bonds also suffered a serious decline...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...