Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of us the Student Council's proposal to abolish all minor and junior varsity sports came as a severe shock. Having worked hard to become sufficiently proficient in a minor or junior varsity sport to represent the fair name of Harvard, and then to find this sport abolished over night is more than a blow. Placed on a House basis, such sports as Cross Country, Lacrosse, Fencing, 150 lb. Crew, Rugby, and Soccer would greatly decrease in proficiency...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt was assured tonight by his financial advisers that the nation's economic structure could withstand any shock arising from outbreak of a European...
...dignity of the Indoor Athletic Building suffered a severe shock recently when a large laundry truck parked outside the building. On its side was painted a large safety pin and beneath it, the motto "We like to wash them. You don't." The truck was a messenger of the Dydee Laundry...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau foregathered with other fiscal officers to study ways & means of cushioning war's shock to U. S. security markets...
...fluid, said Dr. Davis, cannot be given to patients who need red blood corpuscles, but only to those who suffer from shock due to loss of blood and who need to maintain a normal amount of fluid in circulation. It must be sterilized, filtered and typed, just like ordinary blood. Transfusions have been given to nine patients suffering from such diverse ailments as kidney infections, alcoholism, malaria, cancer and gunshot wounds. One man even acted as his own dropsy donor, when Dr. Davis removed 34 ounces of fluid from his stomach, promptly pumped them back into...