Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McCaleb sees possibilities for his new burglar alarm as a fool-roof device to protect safes and vaults but he has not yet experimented fully on the subject...
...serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...
When it came to viewing with alarm, the publishers found two infringements of liberty to condemn: the attempt of a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner to get accountings of articles in the St. Mary's (Pa.) Press and a magazine, Mill and Factory; the demands of the "Black Committee," now headed by Senator Sherman Minton, to examine private papers...
...which currently has 2,503 chapters, 143,000 members, requires no more than an ability to show that one or more ancestors bore arms against George III. Belonging to the organization is a matter of considerably more moment. In addition to its routine political activities of viewing with alarm, the D. A. R. runs innumerable pilgrimages, student loan plans, charities, better citizenship contests, scholarships, historical shrines and exhibits...
...police hastily sent out an eight-State alarm, searched trains, railroad stations, hotels. And as Henry's agitated father, John Cyrus Distler, sped by train to New York, the two boys marched calmly into Henry's house in Baltimore...