Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh's Flight makes the same attempt at realism but there is a fundamental difference. Weill & Brecht did it in a comparatively high-minded mood. They meant to exalt Lindbergh in the same epic style which the ancients used to exalt their heroes. Their intention was not to shock seasonsed concertgoers but to tell the deed "in terms intelligible to school children or to students at preparatory schools...
...world. As many has-beens have done before him, but with more public sympathy than most. he was beginning to try to "come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against a high tension wire and the shock made him able to hear and speak, though with a difficulty which was later to make people think him "punch drunk." In 1923, when he was a Manhattan taxidriver, Berlenbach learned to wrestle and won an Olympic wrestling championship. That same year, turned fighter, he developed a dangerous left hook, with...
...holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken it. The shock (estimated 100,000 Ib.) caused by a breaking blade could have broken the hub, smashed the wing...
...over a year the Farm Board had cushioned U. S. wheat growers against the thudding decline of world prices. Now it could not, would not, play shock-absorber any longer. The experiment had been too expensive. Wheat men would have to cure the fundamental evil of overproduction for themselves. But Chairman Stone found it hard to make them see a difference between last year's "emergency" of 75¢ wheat which put the Farm Board into stabilizing and last week's "nonemergency" of 60¢ wheat which the Board would...
...done damage near its center, it was only of moderate intensity, as indicated by the record. The maximum disturbance was recorded in Cambridge at about 11.25 o'clock. Since Nicaragua is approximately 2200 miles south of Cambridge, the first waves reached here about 6 3-4 minutes after the shock occurred there...