Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
...budget will again balance. But how long men will thus believe is not written on the books of any treasury. Conceivably the U. S. might have twice its present public debt and men might still believe its credit good. Conceivably U. S. citizens might go to bed tonight without alarm at the $29,600,000,000 debt of the U. S. and wake tomorrow morning without faith in U. S. credit, unwilling to lend their Government another dime. Faith cannot be weighed in any scales yet invented...
...clock the Cambridge Fire Department answered an alarm from the box on Boylston Street in front of Eliot House, and at 12:14 they were back in their lair. Blame for the alarm rests on the shoulders of Warren P. Munsell, Jr. '37, a notorious box puller...
...most cautious and conscientious doctor never knows when a disgruntled or scheming patient may sue him for malpractice. Although a doctor may be legally exonerated, his reputation inevitably suffers from the publicity. And the volume of such litigation, to the medical profession's .alarm, constantly increases. In Clinical Medicine & Surgery last week Dr. Isador Simon Trostler, Chicago roentgenologist, trotted out a few fundamental rules which, if scrupulously observed by doctors, he thought, might stem the tide of malpractice suits. Gist of his advice: ¶Never under any circumstances promise a cure or use language which might be construed...
Yale's yearling eleven nosed out the Crimson 21-19 on Saturday, but the margin of victory was not one to cause any alarm for the future of Varsity competition over the next few years...