Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is cause for real alarm in the situation, as we cannot contemplate any such deficit...
Recent developments indicate, however, that Indian enthusiasm for rebellion when once aroused, shows an alarming tendency to transcend the pacific limitations imposed by Ghandi's program. The situation in India today can well be viewed with alarm by British officials. It has become necessary to remove all women and children from the vicinity of Peshawar where violence is at fever heat. At Chittagong an attempt to cut off all communications resulted in an indiscriminate massacre of Europeans and natives. At Simla some fifty casualties have been reported...
...Madrid last week the doughty "Butcher," now aged 91, arose fully convalescent from a sickness during which Death had been expected hourly for weeks. "Pah!" growled he. "My doctors, my family had no cause for alarm. I had only pneumonia...
...winter, 6 o'clock during the daylight saving period to receive New York quotations. And confusing is the fact that ''Floormen," the title usually reserved for members only, is used in San Francisco to designate "Customers' Men." Many of these "Floormen" also serve as alarm clocks, awakening customers at an appointed hour to give them tidings from New York. Just as the New York Stock Exchange is on Broad, not Wall Street, the San Francisco Exchange is on Sansome Street instead of Montgomery, "Wall Street of the West...
Caraway of Arkansas, Dill of Washington. Ownership by a judicial nominee of motor, mining, oil, rail, industrial or other stocks did not alarm these Senators, did not make them distrust the nominee's honor. But they would recommend confirmation of no judicial nominee whom they knew owned utility power stock, would presumably make it their business to uncover such ownership in all future nominees...