Word: tocsin
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...Left as the necessary prelude to enlisting Soviet aid for a Chinese war with Japan. The Young Marshal's broadcast was clearly a clarion call to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 84,000,000 Japanese, and it seemed to suit the Nanking Government that this tocsin should be sounded with loudest fanfare...
...address in accordance with its policy of granting free time to representatives of all recognized political parties. An engineer, it promised, would be ready to cut the speaker off the air instantly if he departed by so much as a word from his carefully censored text to sound the tocsin of revolt. It also announced that it had allotted Red-fearing Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. an equal amount of time on its network at the same hour next evening to answer Red Browder's speech...
Education's myriad Wirts were ready for anything up to and including a Communist tocsin when the American Historical Association's Social Studies Commission finally announced its conclusions last week. Since January, when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government...
...West galvanized the attention of European and U. S. intellectuals, caused a hopeful pricking-up of Asiatic ears. Uncompromising pessimist, Spengler sounded the knell of Western civilization, which he said had passed maturity, was beginning a swift senescence. No defeatist, in The Hour of Decision he rings a tocsin...
...second quarter of the 20th Century in frantic search for a Turning Point, may very well seize upon the "Ulysses" decision as its symbol. Here was a judicial opinion which, a few years before, might have caused bonfires to be lit from Coast to Coast as the tocsin rang out its warning to the pure in mind. It was couched in language which almost any intelligent person might read and even enjoy, being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call a sincere effort "to show how the screen...