Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton's Alumni Weekly, in sharp contrast to the undergraduate "Prince" does not view with alarm William J. Bingham's proposal that the Presidents' agreement be amended so that fall football practice may begin earlier...
...frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth...
...Anarcho-Syndicalists voted for the first time. The Right had dropped from 228 to less than 200. The Centre had snaked out some 65 Deputies, with the Right-Centre coalition claiming a majority of the Cortes' 473 members. As usual, the election aftermath was turbulent. A "state of alarm" was declared when elated Leftists rioted in principal cities, stormed jails in attempts to release 30,000 of their comrades jailed in 1934. Exuberantly in Alicante they turned loose the inmates of the local leprosarium...
...state geologist declared that he could not see why the effects would be limited to areas close to the canal. In places the fresh water had in late years already shown signs of failing and salt water was taking its place. Truck farmers and fruit growers rose in alarm. They formed the Central & South Florida Water Conservation Committee with headquarters at Sanford. They published large advertisements, "What Will You Do Without Water?" They wrote to the President, were answered by a White House clerk. They wrote to the War Department, were answered by publicity releases saying that the canal...
Significance. From a wholly detached point of view there was "no immediate cause for alarm." As the dean of French diplomats, Jules Cambon, has said: "The Germans do not want war; all they want is the rewards of victory...