Word: warns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stoutly answered Madame Schwimmer, "but I would warn the soldier. I would not kill a man, even if he tried to kill me." She added that she might fling herself upon the enemy and try to disarm him. "That's all," said Judge Carpenter. "Petition denied...
...does not automatically make an upperclassman, as it does a Freshman, a subject of disciplinary action: but the bad failures at November are inappropriately called "exceptional," and retribution follows. Often it comes as a surprise. The Sophomore has not the advantages of the Freshman. There is no one to warn, comfort, and command him and the autumnal slaughter of the innocent is consequently widespread...
...hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless in appearance that the Allies let it go through: "My engagement to Miss Butterfly expected hourly. Please inform parents...
...Department of Agriculture issued a public warning: "In view of the wide spread of literature and advice of so-called 'diet experts' it seems desirable to warn people against adopting the dietary recommendations of those without real scientific standing in the community. Some of the advocates of freak diets are sincere, but are, themselves, deluded. Others are fakers. ... If the deductions of many food faddists, accepted as facts, were really operative, it would be difficult to explain how the human race has survived...
Five thousand terror-gripped onlookers watched airmen rush into the air with seven planes to warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards...