Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas heater caught fire, burned up $250 worth of her clothing...
...which Gerald has borrowed from his wife. Life in the cottage is idyllic until one day Carol chances to open the door into the cellar darkroom where Gerald practices his hobby of photography. After the storm of rage which her visit provokes, audiences are not totally unprepared for the shock which comes to Carol when, examining a book about famous unsolved crimes, she recognizes her husband's face under a fringe of sandy whiskers in the portrait of a man who has killed three women by marrying them and luring them to cozy country pieds-à-terre...
...five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a wormish monster which lives in the freshwater marshes of northern South America, grows over 8 ft. long and thick as a man's thigh, can send a shock through 28 ft. of water and stun the largest animal, including...
...speculators this preachment against spiraling prices was a shock that gave the stockmarket a fit of the jitters. But the President's statement that there has been an undue rise of metal prices and more rapid recovery in heavy industry than in other industry, was questioned by economists (see p. 77). Regardless of its accuracy, however, the President's dissertation marked a milestone in New Deal policy: pump-priming is at an end. So far as Franklin Roosevelt is concerned, the business of getting out of the last Depression is now subordinate to the business of avoiding...
...explain the logic of their treatment Dr. Young explained: "Ordinarily there are 80,000,000 fat particles in each cubic centimetre of blood. The body uses them as shock troops against disease. We found that in severe cases of bronchial diseases the fat in the blood dropped to zero. That lack must be filled...