Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was the annual regatta in which scullers took part, as well as the Scratch races on the Charles. Their popularity was so distinctly feeble, that in the spring of '76, when only two candidates reported for the sculling championships, the Advocate began to view the situation with proverbial alarm. "It is in vain to expect a true interest to be taken in boating, unless pleasure-rowing becomes more prevalent", an editorial remarked, and went on in appeal to the "loungers around the docks" to take up sculling or rowing in some form or other. But editorial exhortations...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...
...that many of the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts colonies had gone, not only to Cambridge, but to Emmanuel College in particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence of Cambridge, while...
...latest scare has come. Herr Severing Minister of the interior, exposed to the Reich on Friday a far-reaching plot of the ultra-reactionaries in Bavaria against the government. On Saturday he followed this up with an almost hysterical message to the police all over Germany of "heightened alarm preparedness". The voice in the whirlwind is Herr Hitler, leader of the National Socialist party in Bavaria. This party has cemented itself with the Liberty party in Prussia, and Herr Severing asserts that the whole movement is backed by the ominous Ludendorff. Certain Paul Reveres in automobiles sent out by Hitler...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...