Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corwin's ideas are construed as applying only to teaching methods while Mr. Wendell speaks from the point of view of subject matter, the discrepancy is obviated. It is perfectly easy to reconcile the jolt Mr. Corwin advocates with Mr. Wendell's ideas of semi-college subjects taught in the preparatory school manner in secondary schools...
Last week the Hoover conservation policy received a severe legal jolt when Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that Secretary Wilbur had exceeded his authority under the Act of 1920. Two oilmen, Richard D. Vedder of California and Roy C. Barton of New Mexico, had asked Secretary Wilbur for a prospecting permit on U. S. lands. Secretary Wilbur had refused to receive their application. They sued for an order (mandamus) compelling him to consider their application as the law required...
...course there are some tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit...