Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many new features are incorporated in both lines. All cars will all be equipped with shutter-proof glass, rear gas tanks, automatic shock-absorbers, silent transmissions, and roomier bodies...
...Avco's working personnel, who had developed a deep affection for their president, his departure was a shock. He had just returned from Arizona with a victory over Errett Lobban Cord's Century Pacific Air Lines Ltd. Arizona's Corporation Commission had refused Century a certificate of convenience & necessity to carry intrastate passengers on a route paralleling American Airways. Three days after his return President Coburn summoned all office employes into the maple-paneled board room, gripped the back of a chair, bade them goodby. Said he at the end, "I've had such a good...
...forces Peter to let him come home. Fergus has at last caught on to Peter. He keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad...
Like bacteria in water, myriads of thoughts and memories swarm unnoticed in the drop of intelligence under every man's skull. Unlike bacteria, however, they are brought to a man's attention less by microscopic examination than by some serious shock to the tenor of his ways. Then the myriads of thoughts & memories rush helter-skelter every which way: they have strange encounters, make strange marriages. If they absorb too much of the man's attention...
...exhibition of these pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the skin off his finger-tips, so that his supersensitized bared flesh might the better feel the fumblers fall; to shock as the bull-fighter first uncovers the nerves of his audience by the wilful and barbaric shedding of blood and disemboweling of defenseless horses, so that the supersensitized public might...