Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing them a complicated "mechanical rat" which he and a helper had worked five years to perfect. Living rats, especially white ones, are favorites with animal psychologists who teach them to traverse complex mazes bristling with blind alleys, studying the effect on maze-learning of food, light, electric shock, drugs, blasts...
France had not recovered from the shock of revolution when the Prince de Condé first met his appalling mistress. The last of his family, weak, lazy, amiable, vicious, the Prince "had gained nothing from his very distinguished birth but the melancholy grace that marked his tall person, and long, slightly sheeplike face." In addition to the loss of his estates and honors, the revolution had cost the Prince his son, and most of his ambition. In 1814 his enormous wealth was restored to him and Sophie, whose influence was then uncertain, followed him to Paris, endured rebuffs and humiliations...
That the disease now raising fears along the Eastern seaboard may not be infantile paralysis at all is a medical thought that has been trying to intrude itself for the past several weeks. Last week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There...
That night Representative O'Connor had a shock. All day he kept Mr. Hopson under examination in secret. At 5 p. m. the examination was over. At 5:20 Mr. Hopson, who evidently did not relish the prospect of being put under arrest by the Senate for contempt or by the House for his protection, marched into a special session of Senator Black's committee...
...Hyde Park home Franklin D. Roosevelt solemnly expressed his profound shock and grief at the loss of his "old friend." In Washington Vice President Garner said: "That is awful bad. I can't talk about...