Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Harry T. Roll, 20, junior at Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.); at Colgate, struck by a bolt of lightning, as he completed a 100-yd. dash on the athletic field cinder track...
There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth-to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault...
Obviously improvement in human efficiency implies advance in intelligence. And as intelligence increases, capacity for unhappiness increases. Men who are capable of high efficiency rebel against spending their lives screwing on bolt 13 or hammering nail 127. A thinking man is happy if he is working toward some goal which he can reasonably hope to attain. The prospect which greater efficiency holds out to the intelligent worker is the possibility of becoming a more nearly perfect cog in the system which he already hates. By what strange stretch of the imagination, can one call this making workers happier? Indeed...
Precedent tumbled about his ears? but the audience was pleased. The police refrained from intervention. No bolt fell from Heaven. No harm appears to have come of the episode...
...representatives of the Republican Party in Iowa elected through the medium of the primary, submit to the Republican voters of the State that the repudiation of the Republican nominees by Senator Brookhart is a repudiation of and a bolt from the Republican Party...