Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore it is with alarm that a recent critic has noted the fact that H. G. Wells has passed the half-century mark in books published. He considers that, perhaps, Mr. Wells may not be so great as many are apt to consider him. And in this he may be right. But Rudyard Kipling, and many of the most famous living writers have been prolific, and if the present era is not to go down to posterity as barren of great literature, it must achieve fame through the works of these...
...Britain has maintained an attitude of despairing neutrality upon a question which vitally affects her own interests; now she is determined to have her say in the ultimate peace offering that the Germans, sooner or later, are bound to make. The propitious moment arrived. France views with no inconsiderable alarm the position at Lausanne and more particularly in Syria, where both Turkish and French troops are glaring at each other with nothing between them except a frontier. The British are endeavoring to align themselves with Italy in forcing an issue in the Ruhr and in insisting upon full representation...
...time being in the building trades, and in New York alone over $100,000,000 of new construction is reported to be held in abeyance until the rise in wages and materials subsides. The credit situation is, however, reassuring, and, as Secretary Mellon points out, should occasion no alarm concerning overextension. But a banking stringency is not necessary to usher in a period of declining industrial activity; the business cycle before now has turned from boom into mild depression while money was fairly easy...
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...