Word: panic
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Periodically people overdo this speculation and a panic ensues. The salient feature of business today is that the monopolies are growing, and with them over-capitalization, entailing an enormous amount of speculation and lying up capital in speculative enterprises. This question of monopolies will undoubtedly come up for settlement within the next decade or two, and it is the duty of all men, whether they believe in the theory or not, to study the question, and learn as much about it as possible...
John Pierpont Morgan, public-spirited citizen; patron of literature and art; prince among merchants, who by his skill, his wisdom, and his courage has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic...
...Hiram Mitchell's Dream," by T. S. R., is a well-told story of presentiment and panic. Hiram's dialect needs mending: the man who says "Them things goes" does not say "It's only a dream," but rather "It ain't only a dream" or "It ain't nothin' but a dream...