Word: shock
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those who knew him loved him and knowing his worth realize how great the loss must be to you his parents. His death came as a great shock to many of us, making us feel even more keenly...
...particularly objectionable last night must be stopped. If as is evidently the case, there are many men in the Hall so ill-bred that they do not know enough to treat strangers with civility, the gallery should be closed. Better keep visitors out altogether than let them in to shock them...
Pierre Johnson Gulick '97, of Springfield, Mass., committed suicide at his room in Divinity Hall early yesterday morning. The news of the sad event spread rapidly through the University toward noon yesterday and was a terrible shock to all who knew...
...fifth student had met his death. Nothing, however, could be learned definitely as to his fate, and we were not forced to abandon the hope that he might yet prove to be alive. His mother was very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston papers and, without exception, they consented to make no mention of the young man's name on the following morning. It was a subordination...
...miles of overhead wires, and somewhat over 800 miles of underground wires. Many of these are very heavily charged with electric currents of high tension. The are light wires and the electric car feeders have the highest tension and are exceedingly dangerous. It is often thought that a shock can not be received from a single wire, but this is a mistake, for the gound is thoroughly charged with the current from the underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit is joined and a shock is received...