Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well together. Their beginnings had little in common. Marx was a poor German Jew; Engels was the promising son and heir of well-to-do textile manufacturers. His family were deeply pained when he became an adolescent pinko; as his political shade deepened to red their annoyance turned to alarm. And from their point of view, the strangest thing about Friedrich was that he was a good business man. He made such a suc cess of the English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable politics. But. from the time...
Farmer's statement is as follows: "In retaliation for a certain practical joke played on me by G. M. Davis, I sent in his name the so-called joke bomb consisting of candy, and alarm clock, and excelsior to Governor Curley, hoping to embarrass Davis with unwanted publicity...
Three hours later the boy at the pithead heard the signal bell from the 141-ft. level, indicating that the three wanted to come up. Seconds later he heard the dread nine bell alarm, meaning DANGER, then a great rumbling roar. The walls of the shaft had buckled, the ground over nearly an acre had dropped several feet. Headed by Premier Angus MacDonald, most of Nova Scotia's Provincial officials rushed to the scene...
...Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed for the day. At 4 p. m. citizens were directed to observe a minute of holy silence while the city fire alarm pealed 19 times...
Investigation revealed that the doings in the Bellevue-Stratford ballroom were nothing at which Philadelphians need take alarm. In progress was the National Table Tennis Tournament on twelve tables, under green-shaded lamps, surrounded by the flags of the four nations represented by contestants. After three days of agitation in the ballroom, the tournament.ended as table-tennis experts had predicted: Viktor Barna of Budapest, five times world champion, won the men's title. Ruth Hughes Aarons won the women's. Together they took the mixed doubles title and, to make her performance perfect, Rath Aarons also shared...