Word: shock
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MANY have not yet recovered from the shock caused by the rumor that petitions were to be sent home. The Secretary reports that the number of petitions per week has perceptibly decreased...
...wait to see them toppling with the shock...
...proposition to open the library of Brown University at Providence, R. I., on Sundays, has met with stout opposition from Mr. Reuben A. Guild, the college's veteran librarian, who says that such a proceeding would "shock the moral sense of many of the friends and patrons of Brown University, and do more harm than good to the students...
...make a pretty fair estimate of his goody. Then there are the books themselves, their condition, number, and bindings. And here let me warn you to beware of him who allows his books to stand upside down. One who will do this will do anything. What a shock it gives you, in looking along an otherwise orderly shelf, to come upon a book looking piteously at you with its title at the bottom and the publisher's name at the top. A man may turn me upside down, but not my books...
...following stirring accounts of warlike deeds is taken from the Trinity Tablet: "The word was given, and '79 and '80 met with terrible force. For a moment the well-known pluck of '79 withstood the shock, but in a second the overwhelming numbers of '80 [35 in the class] overcame the resistance, and decided the fate of the contest. '79 was pushed, but it was not to their shame. For hey showed great pluck in attempting to 'rush' a class just twice their own in size...