Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market, it passes unnoticed. Secretive firms, loath to disclose their finances, also prefer to have their securities traded on the over-the-counter market rather than on the exchanges. Banks and insurance companies are almost unanimously o-t-c patrons because they fear published fluctuations in their stocks might alarm depositors and policyholders...
Harvard "viewers-with-alarm" now view with alarm a disintegration of classes once out of College. It is felt that the spirit of kinship among members of classes under the Crimson banner, and the spirit of loyalty to the old school, are growing less marked than were their wont. Such a feeling makes itself most readily manifest in the failure of Classes of the more recent vintage to make good on all occasions towards the Harvard Fund...
...Manhattan, Engine Company 23's Assistant Fire Chief Joseph O'Hanlon was driving to a two-alarm fire when his car broke into flames...
Solution of the Peabody Museum was no nearer yesterday in spite of the efforts of Colonel Apted's office and the police. The robbers' escape in spite of the fact that a prowl car reached the scene not three minutes after the alarm sounded was still a mystery. The gold and jade objects were still unrecovered...
When the cases were opened, the alarm rang, but that did not worry the robber or robbers, who took a number of Central American art pieces, including jade vessels and gold ornaments...