Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis fight met with a formidable contender for the center of attention last night when Freshman gymnasts in the north entry of Stoughton Hall broke the fourth floor sprinkler system, setting off the fire alarm...
Elsa Maxwell sounded an alarm. It seemed that Tyrone Power, in Rome, had hung up on Lana Turner when she telephoned him from Manhattan. "Lana walks around the Reservoir at Central Park at night," Elsa went on nervously, "sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. This is a real tip to MGM, which has a valuable star in Miss Turner and should watch after...
This fall the North American duck population, which has gone down steadily for three years, is down to about 110 million.† In alarm, some states imposed a midseason holiday on hunting (in Oregon, the first half of the season ended last week). The U.S. Fish & Wild Life Service cut the daily limit of ducks per hunter from ten to seven-and now to four. But at some U.S. duck-hunting spots last week, there were not four ducks to be seen, much less shot...
Faverites by 13 points, the team from Brown has one real cause for alarm. In no game this year, except for parts of the second half against Dartmouth, has the injury-hampered Crimson functioned as a coordinated eleven. Coordination comes with practice, and as one of the coaches said this week, "One of these Saturdays we may look like a different kind of ball club...
Liebling views with alarm the trend toward fewer newspapers and their control by "a group of wealthy individuals who share the same point of view." He thinks publishers have no right to be publishers simply because they inherited papers. Writes Liebling: "Try to imagine the future of medicine, law or pedagogy if their absolute control were vested in the legal heirs of men who had bought practices in 1890-even when the heirs lacked any special training...