Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many a Russian, Rachmaninoff had been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
...year when I fell heir to a chair and two lamps from a friend who moved Out West at midyears. My room was too small for them so my room-mate very agreeably shifted with me. This room looks over the Court and at night if my little black alarm clock is stopped I can look at the big illuminated dial in the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot pediment opposite. Thus I know when it is twelve o'clock and high time to stop studying. Or if I am not studying I know when it is high time to stop...
...annual meeting last year, the Executive Committee of the U. S. Golf Association viewed with alarm the "growing increase in the number of clubs." Last week, what U. S. golfers have been expecting ever since arrived in the form of an announcement: "The preambles to the Rules of Golf have been amended, to read as follows: 'The game of golf consists in a ball being played from the teeing ground into the hole by successive strokes, with clubs (not exceeding 14 in number). . . .'" The new rule will go into effect...
...Atlantic City, A. A. A. S. officers and bigwigs made more theoretical and philosophical speeches than usual last week, but there was a fine display of devices to feed the traditional appetite of U. S. science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...
...order of a physician of the staff to do so. Two added doctors are now in service and others will be obtained if necessary, but the Hygiene Department needs and asks for the cooperation of all concerned while the present state of affairs lasts. We see no reason for alarm about the situation, but there is need for caution and early care if complications following the primary infection are to be avoided...