Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that matter, he can just barely get up in the afternoon. He just loves to sleep. Now sleeping is no rare ailment at Harvard. The peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...
Although the Armstrong Investigation viewed with alarm the steady mushrooming of the biggest insurance companies, no effective legal brakes were applied. At that time there were 138 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $2,924,253,848. Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219. The biggest three companies in 1906 had some half billion dollars in assets apiece then; now they have more than a billion apiece. And Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which in 1906 had only $176,000,000, today...
...they took no chances. As the new principal they picked a gruff-voiced six-footer, Clarence Salter. To everybody's amazement, Oswego's rowdies, unchastened by Melvin Attig's breakdown, promptly started to haze Principal Salter. Two days after his arrival they rang a false alarm, brought fire engines shrieking to the school...
...hour, nearly a dozen other explosions blasted England, most of them at power stations, gas works, water reservoirs and public buildings. Police who rushed to the spots had no trouble figuring out the cause. A number of unexploded home-made bombs were found. They had been made from batteries, alarm clocks and gelignite, a gelatin dynamite or "safe" explosive favored by British safecrackers...
...example, German listeners could hear in German news that might not otherwise have reached their ears-that Bridget Hitler, the Führer's sister-in-law, had been arrested in London for not paying her rent; that the U. S. viewed Dr. Schacht's dismissal with alarm...