Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sever Hall's fire alarm system aroused Yardling late-sleepers at noon yesterday, as seemingly urgent bells suddenly sounded out in competition to Mem Hall's gong. While a small know of Sunday morning strollers tingled with excitement, a Cambridge fire-truck pulled up in front of Widener, firemen leaped off, and headed toward Sever...
...entire incident soon fizzled, however, when spectators and fire-fighters discovered that the disturbance resulted from a frozen sprinkler system, which in bursting, had sounded the alarm, and flooded the building's basement lavatory...
Backfire. In Chester, Ill., an underwriters' association inspected the city's firehouse, found it was a fire hazard. In Corte Madera, Calif., Assistant Fire Chief George Menke, his house gutted by fire, finally discovered the cause: a short circuit in the automatic fire-alarm system...
When Collins' companion gave the alarm, troops swarmed into the mazes of Jerusalem's ancient Moslem cemetery...
...year's end, everybody, from the President to pants-pressers, was talking about it. Most of the recession guesses, including President Truman's, were punctuated with big Ifs. Some were as specific as alarm clocks. One forecaster, whose formula is based on tides, picked July 22, 1947, as the day for "a very sharp mark-down." Some said there would be no slump, just because it was being so widely heralded. All this smoke obscured the fire...