Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countries, notably Germany, have given most deplorable results. There is no possibility of hiding the fact that the present movement of the depreciation of the franc began this time from the interior. This is indisputable. There has developed in the last few days among the French public an unjustified panic, causing excessive purchase of foreign currencies unwarranted by our commercial requirements...
...Douglas, second son of the eighth Marquis of Queensberry, for publishing in a paper called Plain English libelous statements. The defendant alleged that Mr. Churchill had plotted with the late Sir Ernest Cassel to publish a false report of the Battle of Jutland, with the object of creating a panic on the neutral stock exchanges in order to sell German stocks at a high price and buy British stocks at a depreciated value...
...Jean Negri, fought desperately with the monster under water for some time. He was finally able to free one arm and plunge his trident into its body. The octopus held fast. Negri gave the signal to be hauled up. When his companions saw the writhing monster emerge they were panic-stricken, but the plight of their comrade appeared so serious that they went to his aid and cut the brute to pieces with their knives...
...When British finance was in a state of panic and arrangements had to be made to save it from disaster; when shells, rifles, machine guns and cannon had to be forged, and great organizations had to be improvised for turning them out at short notice to support our gallant men in the field, the 'vain talker' had his uses...
...other and main end of tonight's meeting will be to focus and get across to the team the confidence which the undergraduate body has in its ability to master the Bull-dog. A wide-spread panic which followed the game on Saturday has given place, through the process of sober second thought, to a calmer and more reasonable frame of mind. Fortunately this does not nor will not approach over-confidence. Yale never met Harvard without the firm determination to win, and there is no reason to believe that its playing on Saturday will be in any degree inferior...