Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gould was working at the Business School courts when he observed smoke coming from the second story windows of the Carey building, a small frame and stucco structure lying almost adjacent to the northeast corner of the Stadium. Two minutes after he turned in the alarm, the Boston Fire Department, District 11, consisting of two ladder trucks and three engine trucks arrived on the scene. The first alarm was turned in at 3:28 o'clock...
...Second Alarm Sounded...
...Lake Success, L.I., delegates heard with alarm loud Russian cries of "Munich!" During the debate on Greek policy and the presence of British troops in Greece, Ukrainian Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky rose to shout that he had been accused of "propaganda aims." Said he: "In the light of the experience which we have lived through, we now know that behind all this noise about propaganda was concealed a preparation of an aggressive war. ... It would seem little likely, but it is a fact, that the shadows of Munich are rising again. ... A wall of votes against the Soviet Union is being...
According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s monthly bulletin, "the rapid increase in the mortality from [diseases of the coronary arteries] represents almost entirely the changing diagnostic concepts of heart disease. . . . There is little cause for alarm over the situation in heart disease today...
Temperature has little or nothing to do with it; the alarm clock nature uses is the changing length of the day. Unconsciously, the animal's inner organism watches the duration of daylight. When the days have lengthened (or diminished) long enough, the reproductive organs of both sexes begin to grow. They are ready to function at the ideal mating season...