Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best in a decade. By last week, with the hunt almost over, 190,000 sculps were piled in stinking holds. Captain Kean can remember when the fleet brought back 700,000 sculps in a good season, but yearly slaughter has dwindled the herds. Some naturalists view this destruction with alarm, but Newfoundlanders say that if they did not keep the herds down the seals would eat up all their cod, capelin and herring...
...York City parents clutched their newspapers in wide-eyed alarm one day last week. They had often suspected that teachers as a class were a little queer. But here in big black headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another...
...supervisor peered into the beehive, gave an alarm signal. Some of the mounds on the mold floor had worked loose, were floating on the surface of the glass. The iron bolts holding them in place had melted...
Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants. The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors as if they were paper. By the time the fire department arrived the whole interior was roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned...
Late at night, often with a copy of the first sheet off the press, the candidate trudges wearily back to his room, sighing over the thought that tomor- row will be the same. Alarm clocks fail to rouse the slumberer, but admonishing friends are always present to jeer the news hawk on his way. They fail to realize, he says to himself, that yesterday he was in the midst of ropes, back-drops and shirt-sleeved stage hands while the star of the hour explained her aversion for poodles. Or that the night before he had jumped...