Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Under the midnight, till the alarm was heard...
...mistake; they are not old, - they have got beyond the boundaries of time, and like an alarm-clock they point continually to a fixed time years and years ago when their ideas were aroused. Since then they have remained stationary. They do not die, - they dry up (how hard it must be for some of them to do this!) until, like mummies, they become remarkable as specimens...
...fire-alarm box has been placed at the junction of Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, numbered...
...fire-alarm box No. 54 has been removed from the corner of Sumner and Cambridge Streets and placed on Memorial Hall...
...whole University will be delighted to know that the steam-whistle on the Brighton abattoir, hitherto sounded in connection with the fire-alarm system has been discontinued by order of the Fire Commissioners...