Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...André Citroën, "French Henry Ford," received last week a nasty, grating, jerky jolt. His Trans-African Citroën Co., formed to finance a trans-Sahara route from Colomb-Bechar, southern terminus of the Algerian railways, to Timbuktu (distance of nearly 1,700 miles) was suddenly brought to an untimely...
...nasty jolt to the "French Henry Ford...
Having business in Westminster, the clergyman takes a taxi. The lions of Trafalgar Square jolt by: "Like other ideals, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy." Looms the House of Parliament: "The corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey...
...Princeton beats Notre Dame, Coaches Fisher and Jones will be given a severe jolt. The Tigers are not rated as strong enough to stop the veteran Notre Dame backfield. Layden and his mates made Princeton look foolish last year and they are better than ever this season...
Cornell's high-powered, underslung applecart had, up to last week, trundled through three seasons and two games without lurching. Then along came Williams-in particular Left End Ide of Williams. The Big Red applecart took a lurch, a swerve, a jolt on the thank-you-ma'm, and lumbered off the road 7 to 14. Ide, scion of Troy, N. Y., collar-makers, scored both Williams' touchdowns, one by whisking up a fumble, one by fastening on a pass. Cornell, fast and brawny, fumbled five times; Williams, fast and brainy, worked smoothly...