Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...germ cells are the theatres of heredity, that the ultimate agents, called genes, which transmit unit characters, occupy definite and fixed positions along the spindly, crooked chromosomes. Since then fame has come to Dr. Morgan and his flies, and to some of his early laboratory helpers, notably to affable, shock-haired Calvin Blackman Bridges of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
...Wild, veteran Chicago news hawk and Harvard publicity director, genial panhandler of College news, liaison officer between official Harvard and the world, chief shock-troop denyer of all University rumors, was tendered a reception yesterday in honor of the anniversary of the appointment to his post here. Gifts were tendered by appreciative Boston reporters, including a rubber stamp worded, "The University has no statement to make regarding Mr. Hanfstaengl's offer...
...businessmen and lawyers, therefore, it was a shock last week to see headlines proclaiming that part of 77-B had been held unconstitutional in Cincinnati by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Nearly half a century has passed since the Times first wrote of Hofmann. then a shock-haired youth of 10, who made his U. S. debut playing the Beethoven Concerto at the Metropolitan Opera House. Then the Times said: "Many people leapt to their feet. Pianists of repute were moved almost to tears. The child had astonished the assembly. He was a marvel...
...when talkies were both so novel and so bad that silence helped rather than hindered the picture. No such advantage aided Chaplin with Modern Times. Even in 1936, however, his older admirers will be able to accept the character which he has immortalized on the screen without sense of shock at such obsolete cinematic devices as subtitles and exaggerated pantomime. What may be the reaction of 10,000,000 cinemaddicts who have grown into the audience since the days when Chaplin pictures were everyday occurrences, is a problem to be answered by the box office. Judging by its reception...