Word: shock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came off, an inverted bowl of bakelite. Exposed was a crazy-quilt of skin patches, splotched with blue and red and white, and pulsating. Norman Douglas' skull, rotting from a 5.000 h. p. electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...
...Bedford sympathy stood the shock of Weisbord violence, still supports the orderly unions. Almost overshadowing the contest between owners and operatives is the war upon the radicals. And it is on the issue of this war that the immediate future of New Bedford depends...
Though such rumors were obviously intended to produce a maximum shock from a minimum content of fact, they made it impossible for Signor Benito Mussolini to continue to pass over in silence the resignation of Finance Minister Count Volpi. The response of Il Duce, obediently voiced by unanimous editorials in the State dominated press, was that Fascist Italy has perfected as a substitute for the cabinet crises of more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime...
Died. Dr. Herbert Steuer, 35, X-ray specialist; by electric shock from his X-ray machine, while making an examination; in Cleveland. Four doctors, including George W. Crile, worked unsuccessfully with ten tanks of oxygen trying to resuscitate...
...work by themselves, or because complete lack of supervision has led them to believe that no work is expected of them. A few extra tests and reports during these opening months would both enable the instructors to keep in close touch with their students, and would lessen the shock of the November hours...