Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to be that History 1, Government 1, and Economics A have certain advantages in this case which make them worthwhile in spite of a possible superficiality. If well taught, one such course can open up an entirely new field of thought to the student, and can help to jolt loose many of the biases that have been based on ignorance. It can give him some ability to pick the right material for future reading, and more important still, awaken a new interest in him which will lead to a desire for more of this type of reading, even...
Since he is a widely read economist in the U.S., the appearance last week of his first full-length book, a lucid, easy-reading summary of the Coyle philosophy, was news. Certain cobblestones in Roads to a New America* were carefully placed to jolt those who drive too far to the right; others, to jounce left-siders...
...slum vignettes, gangrenous clinical talk and last-ditch confessions derived from Celine's medical practice in a Paris charity clinic. (He still clings to this job, which pays about $60 a month, although he has salted away some $25,000 in royalties.) These pages give readers a sickening jolt. But Celine's purpose is apparently to show that neither Ferdinand (his autobiographical main character) nor the world has improved since his boyhood...
...radio's automatic switch is a pendulum which swings fore and aft. A heavy jolt swings it forward into its lock, starts the set sending its mechanical cry for help. Operated by storage batteries, the small transmitter repeats its call steadily for two or three days, is audible to radio direction finders in searching rescue planes. If a safe but bumpy landing should put the signal into operation, a red light on his instrument board warns a pilot to release the pendulum switch...
...report that when it was completed, a print was sent to General Franco's agents were all characteristic of the ballyhoo preceding the release of this picture. Consequently, when Blockade finally appeared last week, the cinema industry justifiably anticipated a polemic sensation that would jolt other producers' self-imposed silence on controversial subjects from totalitarian government to the relative merits of Scotch and bourbon whiskey...