Word: shock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safety is the presence of "good names" in a company. Last week a vast English company which, with its affiliates, represents a capitalization of nearly $500,000,000 and has assets scattered throughout the world, passed dividends upon both the preference and common stocks. This alone, was a shock to London businessmen. But even more shocking were whispers of Scandal about the best of the company's "good names...
...careful effort that has been made to minimize the shock of installing the House Plan, by avoiding too close an imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge system, has received several reverses in the proposed administration at Lowell House. The differences between it and its brother House are slight, yet they offer a certain basis for the contention that the new Harvard will be over-Anglicized; and they are definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutor's table...
...inelasticity of rubber is useful-in motor car tires, bumpers, airplane shock absorber cords-because it absorbs considerable of the energy which stretches it and transforms that absorbed energy into heat. That is why a continually flexing, moving tire is hot. Pull (not slide) a rubber band between closed lips. The lips can feel the heat. Pull (not slide) a piece of steel similarly (a machine is necessary), the steel will cool...
Recently Sculptor de Creeft, now middle-aged though vigorous, arrived in the U. S. He brought with him a large collection of his sculptures which were last week exhibited in Manhattan. The picador, the ostrich, La Femme-Chatte, were absent; Sculptor de Creeft no longer seeks to shock. Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...
...small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house...