Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surfriding off New Zealand last week, the goodwill touring Duke of Gloucester slipped, cut his foot on a sharp stone. "The injury, while giving no cause for alarm," announced Gloucester's equerry, "will force His Royal Highness to somewhat limit his engagements...
...wish to align myself with theater-bombing syndicates, William Randolph Hearst, or the NSL, but merely believe that such anomalies in Harvard life as discontinuance of a matutinal seven o'clock alarm, discontinuance of a reading knowledge of hieroglyphics as an entrance requirement, and an occasional good-natured recount all work for the best in lifting the institution (Harvard) from the withered hand of tradition...
...Approved 239-to-62 the Linlithgow India Report already approved by the Commons (TIME, Dec. 24), thus providing His Majesty's Government with a full mandate to draft its own act giving India more liberal status. In highly premature alarm, the Marquess of Salisbury, a Tory diehard, accused the Government of intending to grant India full Dominion Status, "the ideal of Gandhi...
...quiet the alarm which followed last week's unionization, Dr. A. W. Elpley, secretary of the Medical Practitioners Union, vowed: "We are bound by our own rules never to strike where the sick are concerned...
...international affairs, the array of evidence in this book should suffice. The material is here, although it is presented with all the unrestraint of journalistic sensationalism, and without that balanced judgment and perspective so badly needed in a book of this sort. Mr. Riegel sets out to "view with alarm" the world-wide battle of nationalist propaganda and indeed, few will deny that it is a story lending itself to sensational treatment. It is a story that should be widely publicized...