Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Etat c'est moi." This danger of absolute centralization of power in the head of our nation is a menace that must be recognized. Opposition to such a menace is no heresy, and as Wendell Phillips said "when your house is on fire, you do not give a moderate alarm." Business interests in the East are demanding release from the heavy tax burdens imposed by the present government, the cry of the West-especially the farmers is "Down with the House of Wilson," and even in the South, the solid South, people are restless, even riotous, under the oppressive economic...
...cause which he is nourishing may grow to such uncontrollable proportions as to plunge himself as well as his enemies into the slouch of anarchism. It is a situation which any friend of organized society, whether or not a citizen of Illinois, must look upon with apprehension and alarm...
Yesterday morning at about 10 o'clock a small fire broke out in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory among some storage batteries, sending forth great quantities of smoke but doing little damage. Three pieces of apparatus responded to the alarm but the fire had already been extinguished without difficulty. Defective insulation is thought to be the cause...
...exclusion of duly elected socialists, not the rounding up and temporary imprisonment of inoffensive aliens, but freedom of expression and open-mindedness are the methods by which improvements must come. The times are serious; and we should profit by history. There is little cause for our terrified excitement and alarm. The country should cool down...
...stationary for four years. Some persons have expressed fears that with the rising scale of expenses, the universities would fail to draw the same number of students of small resources. When all sides of the case are considered, it will be seen that there is little reason for such alarm as this...