Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concentrators in several fields which lack tutorial received something of a jolt this month when they opened their course catalogues and found that the customary thesis for honors course was no longer listed. This absence would continue the thesis for honors system, while denying thesis writers in fields like Economics the half-course credit they currently may claim for the work they put in on their magnum opus...
...reservation and rapidly approaching the orbit of the earth. Astronomer C.A. Wirtanen of Lick Observatory, Calif., who spotted it, figured that it was some two miles in diameter (about the size of the Matterhorn broken off at its base) and big enough to give the earth a sizable jolt...
...Czech jolt had jarred even Scandinavians out of dreams of neutrality. The next Communist campaign might be aimed at them...
...most U.S. grocery stores last week, 97? would buy what $1 bought a month ago. Nobody was certain, but most Americans were hoping that this slight dip in food prices might be the start of the downhill slide from inflation. Last week they got a jolt...
...London, Cabbie Elmo Poluck felt a sharp jolt from behind, climbed out to pay his respects to the other driver. "What's your name and address?" he demanded. The embarrassed reply: the Duke of Edinburgh. "Then," Poluck reported, "something inside me brain clicked, and I looked up and said, 'Oh, oh, so it is!' Then I lost my equilibrium. ... I saw the Princess smiling inside the car, so I raised my hat to her and she nodded back. Then they drove away...