Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious communities in the U.S.S.R. which have obtained registration as containing more than the minimum required number of 20 parishioners each. To read in Pravda that there are thus, at the very least, 600,000 registered* and actively religious Soviet citizens was one of the first news shocks set off by the new Constitution. It brought with it the further shock that apparently the Constitution entitled these religious groups to nominate candidates for the Supreme Soviet...
Died. Mrs. Kathryn Lawes, 50, wife of Penologist Lewis E. Lawes; of shock, exposure and internal injuries, after a fall while walking on a hillside near Bear Mountain Bridge; in Ossining...
...second shock was less spectacular but more illogical. Three weeks before the current market slump began in industrial stocks on Aug. 15, railroad shares had started down as the public gradually became aware of the fact that railroad operation costs had grown much faster than revenues (TIME, Sept. 13). With this crisis becoming more acute, the decline in railroad shares dragged down simultaneously the operations of many a basic industry, best example being steel. Hobbled by several factors, among them curtailment of railroad equipment orders,* steel production last week stood at 55.8% of capacity down from its spring high...
...fellow writers. The first had been letdown enough, but in the second it seemed that Hemingway had definitely given over his precise eloquence to ignoble uses-that, carried away by his peculiar gifts, he had turned from the deeper study of the human tragedy to revel in the mere shock and suddenness of wanton killing. War was already too much in the air to make such an attitude agreeable. It was a time too of increasing political and economic strain, when the pressure was great, both from the Right and the Left, on every writer to stand and declare himself...
...much as button his waistcoat without Jean's help, boasts that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things can never be the same again. As Elissa Landi bitterly remarks: "At home Jean ties father's cravat, and in Parliament he tries to cut his throat...