Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huntington Park High School had to be dynamited when fire got beyond control. At Watts, the city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted where they were to prevent derailment. In San Pedro Harbor the cruiser Northampton, feeling a sharp tug on her anchor chain, got up steam in readiness...
Written as the by-product of an eminently successful scientific foray, this volume is not a handbook or history of the country. But as an absorbing narrative, it does succeed in giving us much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over...
...severely criticized for what has been called indifference to inter-House activities, but which may be more suitably interpreted as independence, is doubtful, for in the course of time the Houses are bound to tend towards autonomy, and their own distinctive characters. There is perhaps more cause for alarm in that Dunster House, in its internal activities, has not taken fuller advantage of the opportunities which life in the Houses was intended to provide...
...sled driving is a sport of the type which insurance companies view with alarm. Last month a Swiss bobber, Oscar Geier, was notified that his insurance would be cancelled unless he gave up the sport. To prevent novices from breaking their heads, Lake Placid bob-sled enthusiasts last summer formed the Adirondack Bob Sled Club which teaches novices how to handle the sleds, issues licenses for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, maintains a staff of drivers to take passengers over the course for $1 a ride...
...there are larger issues at stake than an alarm with such dubious premises. The cooperation of the Soviet Government in the Pacific Basin is becoming imperative if the Stimson doctrine on Manchuria is to be given substance. To the preservation of the territorial integrity of China we are unequivocally committed. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated that he will support the Stimson position upon his accession to power. And yet any attempt along these lines can scarcely ignore the greatest power in the Near East, the Union whose strength in the Basin outweighs that of any other nation. Mr. Fish's fear...