Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backbone of all investment markets is institutional buying. And leaders of this are the life insurance companies, holders of many bonds, mortgages, common stocks. Cause for genuine alarm would have been a bearish attitude in last week's meeting of Association of Life Insurance Presidents. But no bearishness was discernible...
...just what sad end this world is coming. He is by nature a peaceful and optimistic soul, and the machinations of Hitlers and Mussolinis on the other side of the Atlantic at times fill him with a real uneasiness. He views the flag-waving Nationalist and his works with alarm, and has often wondered at the strange course taken by the ship of state when under the influence of popular jingoism...
...bank failure-as all know who have lived in a community where such a catastrophe has occurred-can be called harmless. Yet the South's troubles did not cause great alarm to U. S. banking at large. Rather, bankers in other States said the Southern trouble has been long in coming, is now ended...
Last week while mine inspectors were investigating the coal mine tragedy in Millfield, Ohio (see p. 18), Daniel Harrington, Chief of the Safety Division of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, urged metal mine operators to adopt a modern method of warning miners of danger. The alarm signal is a penetrating odor. Metal mines (unlike coal mines, which use electrically operated fans) are ventilated by compressed air which travels into the farthest corners at the rate of about 1,000 ft. per sec. Engineers have found that a little odorous liquid injected at the source of the air supply will...
...week ago today the average undergraduate turned off his alarm-clock with the pleasant reaction that that particular Monday was a pleasant interlude in the general scheme of things. And turn about is fair play. So the Vagabond beckons his first finger of the year in the direction of his adherents and, akin to the Pied Piper, leads them up the marble stairs of Widener into Room U. where at high noon, an hour will be devoted to several remarks on Christopher Columbus, the "a priori" of last week's holiday. The lecture given by Professor Usher under the title...