Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry...
...Government money sufficient for its needs, and the Government, contrary to the contract, began coining money to meet the emergency. Differences developed, during which the bank appealed to the United States for help. Before help could come there were two revolutions in rapid succession, and the bank in high alarm asked the United States to send a warship, and quickly. But when this arrived the bank's chief concern proved to be the shipment to New York of gold belonging in whole or in part to the Haitian Government...
Fire, of undetermined origin, completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Locker Building early this morning. The three-alarm blaze, which commenced a few minutes before midnight, gained such a start that the three dozen odd pieces of apparatus and their complement of fire fighters were absolutely helpless to extinguish the flames. A crowd of upwards of 4,500, made up largely of students, watched hungry flames turn into belching smoke and a tangled mass of debris all of the medical equipment of the Athletic Association, trophies of generations of Harvard victories, over 300 complete football outfits, 100-odd baseball uniforms...