Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain will slacken for a time the tension along the long Asia frontier, reaching from Mesopotamia to Thibet, Burmah and the Malay States. A bugaboo in the shape of a Russo-Japanese alliance fostered by acquiescent China, and drilled by distant Germany, may have enough reality to alarm the farsighted. In the meantime the British naval base at Singapore is being built; the Russo-Japanese danger can be faced when it arises...
...Fulmer Act, passed by Congress during the closing hours of the last session, made compulsory a new set of standards for grading cotton in all interstate and foreign transactions. In alarm, the representatives of the principal European cotton markets hastened to Washington, being in doubt as to the effect of this new law upon their interests. Despite the curt and bureaucratic manner in which the law was passed, however, its outcome seems likely to prove beneficial to every one. The standards, which are now due to be followed all over the world, relate especially to discoloration, amount of foreign matter...
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...