Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically, many a southern planter views with alarm the possibility of controlling or eradicating Boll Weevil. In the South are two schools of weevil thought. One school laments the curse which reduces the cotton yield per acre, increases production cost, is already discounted in the market price. No less stoutly the other group holds that the weevil is really a disguised blessing, "the best thing that evuh happened to the South, Suh! Why, if it weren't for boll weevil, Cotton would be selling for fo' cents a pound right...
With a terrific bang, which did not so much alarm as it startled and amused the Empire, the new United Empire Party, founded less than a month ago (TIME, March 3), burst last week into its constituent atoms...
...connoisseur of the gestures of politicians, President Hoover took sudden and inexplicable fright at this mounting stack of legislation in the House which, if really enacted, would certainly have emptied the Treasury. A White House breakfast was called, with House and Senate Republican leaders and Treasury officials in attendance. Alarm was felt. The President was told, falsely or otherwise, that the pressure behind all these bills was inordinate, that something would have to be done to check the drive on the Treasury...
...adorar Bonocino Vergin, tutto amor Danza danza Durante Gesang Weyla's Wolf Der Tambour Allerseelen Strauss Ich trage meine, minne Zueigning Chanson Triste Duparc Lamento Colloque Sentimentale Debussy Ballade des femmes de Paris Claire Dragoons Old Irish The Light of the Moon The Next Market Day Savourneen Dheelish The Alarm...
Ships raced to all Egypt's ports last week. German ships dumped tons of alarm clocks, razors, motor cars and every imaginable manufactured article in unimaginable confusion. British, French and Italian freighters at piers hard by dumped too. Stevedores sweated, swore and slaved all night at both Alexandria and Port Said. The race was against time and tariffs with every Egyptian merchant interested in the results, most with heavy stakes...