Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mosco Mucilage, second assistant proctor at the English 99 1-2 examination, that the secret of the Memorial Hall ghost was discovered as soon as it was. Even so it was only barely in time, for symptoms of demoralization had begun to spread throughout the college and a panic might have resulted had the mystery continued much longer...
...uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced his imperial prerogatives, in a panic, and called himself "Citizen Cyril Romanov"; 4) that in any case Nicholas II detested the Grand Duke Cyril and suspended all his honors, for some years, after he married a divorcee Grand Duchess, contrary to the wishes and strict code of Nicholas the Last...
...stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic of 1907 vividly demonstrated the justice of his criticisms, won him recognition as a financial authority. In 1908 he went with the late great Henry P. Davison and Frank A. Vander-lip and Senator Nelson Aldrich to recently-famed Jekyl Island (see National Affairs) where the U. S. currency system...
...panic resulted from the epidemic of mild influenza which for three weeks has spread eastward from California across the continent. Although more than 40,000 people were officially reported sick with the disease and another 200,000 estimated so, the deaths were few. This epidemic has revealed no such virulence as that of 1918. Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight...
...week closed with no signs of a rally. There were stories of a bankers' conference in the offices of J. P. Morgan-stories that the bankers might support the market to prevent a stock panic. It was thought that "bargain hunters" (shrewd traders who pick up stocks at low prices after a deflation) would start a buying movement that would rally the market. On the whole, the bear market was considered a local hurricane, not at all reflecting the condition of the nation's soundly prosperous industrial life...