Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D.C. last week, firemen answered an alarm at the Washington Cathedral, discovered that what Edwin N. Lewis of the Cathedral staff had thought was a cloud of smoke around the 225 ft. spire was a great swarm of gnats...
Despite my brilliant success in the forecast of last Saturday's game with Springfield, I view with alarm the proposition of having to settle today's outcome between Harvard and West Point. Order and system, such as that inspired by military training, have been known to defy the divinations of the occult. But I hasten to invoke the aid of my most revered ancestors in prophesying that, while the Army will fight hard and will score, the three touchdowns made by Harvard will be enough for victory. Other scores: Yale 13 Brown 6 Cornell 14 Princeton 0 Dartmouth 28 Columbia...
Getting down to statistics the cool-headed Miller said: "It is very doubtful if our home growers would be much better off were Soviet competition withdrawn. Figures of [Russian] shipments to date give no cause for alarm and, indeed, are very small compared with those...
Primo Camera, gigantic Italian fisticuffer, heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters. All agog, he rushed to the street, discovered firemen putting out a small blaze in the Plaza annex, would not calm himself until he had used his great paws to help screw a fire-hose to a hydrant...
...other potentialities are, however, latent. Were it not for the fact that Harvard can lateral and forward pass, as demonstrated last season with practically the same backfield, there would be cause for alarm. But this the Crimson can do and although it was not shown Saturday should come forth as soon as a few more polishing up drills have been held and all of the missing members of the backfield return...