Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shock trops may be the order of the night when Wes Fesler's harassed cagers attempt to halt Tony Mischo, the one man team from Pennsylvania in the Indoor Athletic Building, and thwart Coach Lon Jourdet's Quakers in their bid for third place in the final E. I. L. standings...
...Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them...
...tubes, which remain the bulk of the rubber business only because of replacement demand. The average car requires 40 Ib. of rubber for its accessories; some cars have as many as 300 rubber parts. And these do not include a new rubber spring Goodrich is perfecting, a new rubber shock absorber of Firestone's, or the industry's current prize hope-sponge rubber cushions, which it believes will supplant horsehair, coil springs and other upholstering material not only in cars but in mattresses and furniture...
Lost in the shuffle in a star-studded V. F. W. track meet at the East Armory last night, 11 of Jaako Mikkola's shock-troopers brought home no points, and little else besides experience. Charley Smith and Frank Neal reached the semi-finals in the dash, and Langdon Burwell came in sixth out of a field...
...Shock From Lima, Peru, came a Decameronian tale: a stroke of lightning which ripped off all the clothes of a beautiful young woman in the streets of Calendin (pop.: 5,000), left her mute from shock. Shocked in his turn by the dazzling sight, a passer-by who had long been mute, recovered his powers of speech...