Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were true but the average Spaniard took his daily siesta, went to the bullfight every Sunday, ate a seven-course dinner at 10:30 at night...
...Captain Warms told Assistant Director Dickerson N. Hoover that the Morro Castle's automatic fire alarm system had failed to work. " This statement was not made. During the testimony of Captain Warms on Monday, Sept 10, Mr. Crone asked Captain Warms if the automatic alarm registered. Captain Warms answered that it registered when flames existed on A deck. Mr. Crone asked whether fire was in the staterooms at that time and Captain Warms replied: "Yes, in staterooms on A deck, port side...
...effort to avoid such re-occurrence of Yard fires as that which demolished the first Harvard Hall, a fire alarm system has recently been established, consisting of automatic gongs and high powered searchlights in conspicuous places on the Freshman dormitories and lecture halls...
...bells are connected with the Rindge Fire Station and the Apted sanctum. Whether automatic sprinkler systems have been installed in the newly renovated Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls it has not been possible to ascertain. The gongs not only serve to give a general alarm of fire, but also serve effectively to locate the hydrants...
...minutes before 3 o'clock," said Acting Captain William F. Warms, who was suspended in 1926 as master of the Ward Liner Yumuri because he failed to hold weekly fire drills. Some of the crew heard no alarm. No passenger heard...