Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion with a talk on "What Then, Shall We Do About I?" Professor Bode held that students were evolving a new conception of culture in social terms and colleges must be so organized that the transition from college to life becomes a natural process and is not a sudden jolt. College education should give the ability to think straight. A social sensitiveness, an ability to enter into the views of other men must be built up around this...
...plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours later he came to a field's edge. Occasionally a car went by, but smashed jaws cannot shout...
...light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, typically seating four persons, back to back. "Jaunt" originally referred to the prancing or "jaunting" of the horse, which makes a two-wheeled car jolt and tilt somewhat rakishly. By association the verb "to jaunt" came to mean the taking of a short pleasure ride...
...cheerfulness in general business. Perhaps it was the realization of this which induced Mr. Mellon to issue a quite "bullish" interview, with especially favorable comment upon the extent to which shares have recently risen. At any rate, just as the stock market itself has apparently recovered from the psychological jolt thus administered to it, so have industry and commerce. Retailers, who for a while dreaded a slump until after the Christmas season, are now apparently in a more optimistic frame of mind...
...details were given out at the British Treasury concerning the negotiations, but a "leak" of information established the fact that the French had received a rude jolt. The British view evidently was that payments from Germany could not be considered until they had been received, as it was not known whether or not the Experts' Plan could be operated successfully in the exceedingly difficult years ahead.† A second point was that Russia, who owes Britain more on paper than any other country, could not be considered at all. It was therefore apparent that France would virtually have...