Word: prick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engineer Ogle and others have made painless death a reality at Sing Sing. Once it took three shocks to kill; now only one is necessary. Properly applied electric current reaches the brain in 1/240 of a second; thus, the loss of consciousness is almost instantaneous. Compared to this, the prick of a needle at the base of the skull (taking 1/10 of a second to reach the brain) is sluggish...
...venture was a penny arcade. Marcus Loew has turned that penny arcade into 350 theatres. "A Loew House in Every Town," his employes proudly proclaim - and the boast is true, or very nearly. Every evening, as twilight blows westward across the continent, the light of countless theatrical facades prick out his name in lights like little yellow dollars. "Loew" they twinkle, "Loew" they wink; they seem to be calling him, and for a while Marcus Loew responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace...
...This is Lampy's conception of the proposed Memorial Chapel, for besides being an amusing caricature of the contemplated steeple, it manages to show up in high relief the absurdities of the design as reproduced in the CRIMSON last week. The editors may congratulate themselves on having helped to prick another bubble. It is to be regretted only that they do not perform this useful service with greater regularity...
After a few warning twinges, the glossy blister of high prices in the New York stock market burst explosively at the prick of the rail merger ruling at Washington (see p. 28). Widespread pain was experienced by the speculating body public, as leading rail, motor, industrial and chain-store stocks oozed out 10, 20, 30, even 50, even 80 points, even 100 points.* The nerves of finance carried the anguish to distant cities...
...drop in the stock market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...