Word: panic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...panic yesterday morning in the Cambridge Subway, near Kendall station, was exactly what might have been expected in a train packed to the doors, such as is characteristic of the service during rush hours...
...sudden crisis searches out both the brave and the cowardly. At such times the character of those caught in it becomes evident. The subway coward is the self-seeker under fire. Those who are brave in a panic are those who are gentle and considerate at other times. --Boston Globe...
...France in 1793. (2) Price-fixing and the Reign of Terror. (3) France Bankrupt but Victorious in 1797. (4) Makers of the Napoleonic Regime. (5) Fate of Napoleon's "Immense Project." (6) Freedom of the Seas in Napoleon's Day. (7) Napoleon and the United States. (8) A Panic in the Grand Empire. On Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock, beginning Tuesday, January...
...Commerce Commission asking for an increase of rates, as under existing conditions they are rapidly approaching financial exhaustion. Not even the most cynical anti-capitalist can deny that the plight of the railroads is desperate, and that as a direct result of this the market is now in a panic condition, with consequent business demoralization throughout the land. It has been estimated that seventeen billion dollars have been invested in American carriers, and short sighted is the government which for political reasons, is going to prevent such investors from getting a reasonable return on their money. Of all enterprises...
...weakened by two and a half years of war, cheerfully subscribed to an even greater sum. The average American has not yet reached that point of patriotism where he will invest all his savings in government bonds, while the present state of the stock market, lowered to panic level by vast liquidation of British collateral, offers him a chance to buy some gilt-edged security at an unusual bargain. In reality he is defeating his own ends, as should the loan fail, taxation would of necessity be largely increased, and the war considerably prolonged...