Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campus mannerisms, its enthusiasm and noise, this mixed crowd was not collegiate at heart. Director Lucas, who views higher education with political alarm, had carefully picked his Young Republican delegates mostly from petty jobholders. Last April he said: "Many of our universities and colleges are literally saturated with Radicalism. Text books, classroom lectures and private conversations ... are antagonistic to the traditional policies of the Republican party. ... As it is hopeless to expect a reform ... the approach to the young man and woman must be made independent of our educational system...
...Government in business is not an idea that I view with alarm if the business is of such a nature that it cannot be carried on by private enterprise without an elaborate system of public regulation...
Although seamen might be grateful for Mr. Hutton's propagating the right sort of sentiment toward keeping sailors employed, U. S. shipbuilders view with alarm the fact that Mr. Hutton, like many another U. S. millionaire, has his pleasure craft built abroad. Mr. Hutton's Hussar I, now in use, was built at Kiel in 1923. Now abuilding, also at Kiel, is Hussar II. It will cost $1,250,000. Since labor is the largest cost in yacht building (80%), and since German shipyard labor costs 22? an hour-48? less than the U. S. scale- Mr. Hutton...
Familiar and well-fictionized is this picture of British clerical life. But last week the London Daily Mail intruded a note of alarm, predicted that changes in the administration of the Church of England might well revolutionize the life of every parish in England. Since there is a deficiency of some 1,100 clergymen in the Church, there must soon be redistribution of vicars and curates (their assistants) and an amalgamation of many parishes which are at present thinly populated. Some congregations might be transported by bus to and from distant churches. Some curates might be obliged to scurry here...
...That the cessation of economic aggression would help put an end to the present atmosphere of mistrust, uncertainty and alarm weighing so heavily upon the economic position...