Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson baseball prospects, already marred by probation and belated snowstorms, received another jolt yesterday when J. C. McGlone '26, slated for regular second baseman, was badly injured during infield practice and had to be assisted off the field. A ball was hit to Jenkins so near second base that he stepped on the bag instead of tossing the ball to McGlone. The latter, slowing up suddenly and attempting to get out of his captain's way, twisted the knee that he injured in football last fall...
...Jolt to Reactionaries
...obviously far from playing politics, President Coolidge has made so strong an appeal to the heart of the public, especially in his tax, bonus, child labor, and mimimum-wage-for-women recommendations, that he who reckons without the President at the Republican convention is likely to receive a severe jolt. Though Johnsons may blow their trumpets from the steeps". President Coolidge has made a simple, direct appeal to the heart...
...Dartmouth receiver a severe jolt on Thursday in the loss of Calder from the squad. We have now no kicker, and Harvard will play a kicking game tomorrow. That means that we will have to shift backs throughout the game. It is a serious handicap. But we are all expecting...
...Dyke Flouts the Unanimous Opinion of the World The reputation of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669), long ranked as the greatest painter of the Dutch school and among the half-dozen greatest of the world, received a severe jolt when, in a large, expensive book, Rembrandt and His School.* Dr. John Charles Van Dyke, Professor of the History of Art at Rutgers College, attacked the alleged Rembrandt myth, assiduously fostered by critics, collectors and the public, which has ascribed over 800 paintings of varying merit to the master. He finished by conceding authenticity to a scant 35. The rest...