Word: shock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tearing off every crucifix which they espy on a child's neck. . . . Such methods are not efficacious. ... I also doubt the wis dom of instructing advanced classes in anti-religion by the method of dissecting before them the remains of so-called saints or other fetishes. The shock with which such demonstrations impinge upon latently religious minds often produces, in my experience, a negative result. We must be more subtle...
While the voting was in progress, William Randolph Hearst's scarehead newspapers burst one morning upon the street with rabid appeals not to make an Anglomaniac the Bishop of New York. The shock of this insolence caused a revulsion in Dr. Manning's favor, and he was speedily elected to the high office of Cathedral Heights...
Word of her arrival was kept from Brother Bramwell at first. Physicians who had cared for him for two years, ill with nervous collapse and enfeebled by his 72 strenuous years, said he could not stand the shock. But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should come in some more violent manner to his ears, his wife and his daughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, gently informed...
...ample exercise for his patrician tastes. He liked horses, liked dancing; he was an excellent shot. In ecclesiastical matters however he was not widely known. And when the new pope, Pius X, in his emergency, selected Merry del Val as ProSecretary of State the decision came as a distinct shock...
...parts. It often is cheaper to buy from a large-scale parts factory. In a list of 93 models, for example, 13 used Lycoming motors, 14 Continentals. Ford, famed for controlling all manufacturing steps from raw material to finished cars, last week had contracted to buy batteries, tires, bodies, shock absorbers from outside companies.* All manufacturers seem to give good value in 1929 cars. The table on p. 43 shows comparative prices. Often where prices are close together, they differ because one maker provides more or less fittings and accessories than another. Because every motor manufacturer produces the four-door...