Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thinking man, after due consideration of conditions, is willing to admit that something should be done; but the prospect of a timber shortage a hundred years from now does not alarm him tremendously. Other problems that will affect him rather than his descendants claim his attention...
...increased pay. The exorbitant cost of production is eventually passed on to the purchase, and the price of books soars steadily upward. When publishers are forced to curtail the printing of textbooks because they can not sell enough to make one edition profitable, college students may well take alarm at modern labor conditions...
...spent an hour in preliminaries, visited the Commissioner, who issued a permit in fifteen minutes, and on the next ensuing week day spent a further hour and forty minutes, during which two men worked continuously on examination and classification of our samples and computation of duties. Our growing alarm was assuaged when we received a bill for a dollar and eighty cents -- in marks of course...
...other alternative, that of a State university, is one that easterners view with justified alarm. It would impose upon the state a burden in taxation that would add distressingly to the obligations of the citizens of a State the size of Connecticut on the one hand, and invite, on the other hand, a political oversight and supervision which might easily be turned into disrupting propaganda, the enforced assimilation of a curriculum that would serve the interests of a new and independent scholarship. New Haven Journal Courier
...Etat c'est moi." This danger of absolute centralization of power in the head of our nation is a menace that must be recognized. Opposition to such a menace is no heresy, and as Wendell Phillips said "when your house is on fire, you do not give a moderate alarm." Business interests in the East are demanding release from the heavy tax burdens imposed by the present government, the cry of the West-especially the farmers is "Down with the House of Wilson," and even in the South, the solid South, people are restless, even riotous, under the oppressive economic...