Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud and prolonged ringing of a burglar alarm in the Gold Coast district last night attracted the attention of scores of students who sought out the disturbance and found that it emanated from the Lampoon building. It was suggested that someone might be in quest of the famed Ibis, Lampy's traditional symbolism...
Arthur, however, located the trouble and had the din stopped. It was found that Benny Hyte had left one of the windows partially opened, and due to some trick of the wind, the alarm...
...puffed his pipe reminiscently, a quaint gargoyle in a roseate paradise, which betrayed the artistic aspiration of the nouvenu riche. Then he tapped the ashes reflectively on the white arch and set his alarm clock for an early rising hour in order that he might enjoy his soft boiled eggs in the dining room at breakfast, before the strike of nine sounded the liberation of the chickens from their daily toil...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., summering in Maine, heard with alarm of great unemployment in Westchester County, N. Y., wrote orders that a lake on his Westchester estate be enlarged; 200 married unemployed start digging...
...Manhattan, four small boys-John Kozinsky, Evans Colderia, Jacob Torba and William Torba-decided to go fishing in Central Park, looked about for hooks, lines, sinkers. Shortly after their decision, numbers in two telephone exchanges could not be reached, warning lights flashed on the alarm board of the Holmes Electric Patrol, police were summoned to find the source of the trouble. Source: Fishermen Kozinsky, Colderia, Torba and Torba had discovered and sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired...