Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concurring was Robert B. Watson '37, Associate Dean of he College who directly supervises the College's 43 undergraduate activities and points with alarm to the existing inadequate facilities for these groups." 'There are fewer and fewer available meeting rooms, for example,' Watson commented, "and more and more student activities. It must become widely realized at once that the situation now is not what is was ten years ago when extra-curricular interest did not run so high...
...broad, bright daylight-no time for alarm, let alone tragedy. Yet radio receivers in United Air Lines offices at Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco crackled out a message pregnant with fear: "United 608 sending blind [i.e., calling any station because of emergency]. We have baggage afire aboard this airplane. We are going into Bryce. Don't know if the fire is out yet. We have a smoke-filled airplane...
...profits were enough to cause some viewing with alarm. At the New York Herald Tribune Forum, John G. Winant, ex-ambassador to Britain, warned that such "unprecedented profits in combination with the high cost of the necessities of life" created dissension at home and conflicted with U.S. foreign policy, thereby comprising a "new danger to private enterprise here and peace abroad." Many a profit-counter, busy with his books, was hardly bothered by such lofty considerations...
...pinch was on. The first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should realize] that a new oil-burner installation does not carry with it an assured supply of fuel." Monroe Jackson Rathbone, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), "Big Jersey," went even further. He suggested that all U.S. refineries allocate the supply of oil to retailers...
Local gunsters, possessing only inferior bore .22 calibre rifles were inclined to view the invitation of the Yale potshotters with alarm. "It's bad enough in the open trolleys down there with the pigeons flying around." said one, "but lead pellets might be piling Pelion on Ossa...