Word: alarmistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to be unduly alarmist." said he, "but the farthest nebulae are doubling their distance from us every 1,300 million years and astronomers will have to double the apertures of their largest telescopes every 1,300 million years simply to keep up with their recession. I'm glad that you in America are planning to replace your 100-inch telescope by a 200-inch way ahead of time...
When assigned the task of investigating the prison system of Massachusetts, Auditor Hurley was ordered by Governor Ely not to give out any information until the report should be completed. The League for Independent Political Action's Committee on Prison Justice recently ascertained that the many exaggerated and alarmist years about Norfolk, which appeared from time to time in the Boston Herald, came direct, from Mr. Hurley's office to their State House reporter...
...atmosphere of technical cooperation as a surer route to internationalism than the pathway of political ideas. The need for international force is sanely handled; a modified method of representation of small nations in the League Assembly is proposed. If one views the present era of economic nationalism from the alarmist point of this is of course all drivel...
...Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant in Japan for two years! Publisher Hearst last week slathered his papers with a half-page editorial and half-page map under the screamer line: "Only Preparedness Will Prevent War." It sounded alarming even for alarmist Publisher Hearst. Excerpts...
...year a blatant young editor named John Bowman Chapple managed to win the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, partly by charging that President Frank and his faculty "pinks'' had made the university a hotbed of communism, atheism and free love (TIME, May 2, 1932 et seq.). Alarmist Chapple lost the election, but he had started a Red scare which last week resulted in a legislative investigation at Madison...