Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birth and breeding made Paul Vories McNutt an autocrat, the Democratic voters of Indiana made him Governor and, last fortnight, the State Legislature made him a 50% dictator. To this tall, handsome young man with his shock of white hair and his bristling black eyebrows went a grant of executive power over Indiana unmatched in its history. Well might the other 47 governors of the U.S. envy the supremacy of Paul McNutt...
Already alarmed at the reported size of the country's floating population, the Senators got a fresh shock when Columbia University's Sociologist Nels Anderson told them that many of the nomads are girls. On the basis of a threeday, four-city survey made three weeks ago he estimates a transient U. S. population of some 165,000 boys and 100,000 girls under...
...Turck). Each species of animal and plant has its own kind of cytost. Injury to the body liberates quantities of cytost into the blood stream. If the injury is severe-as in mangling, mayhem or scalding-the vast quantity of exuded cytost acts as a poison, causes shock and often death. Occasional, small quantities of cytost are stimulating, but repeated small doses act as a cumulative poison...
With such empirical data in mind, Dr. Turck projected a rational theory to explain the mechanisms of shock, infection (especially of lungs and digestive system), protein poisoning, some allergies, focal infections, vaccines...
Those who were amazed recently at the disclosure by Sing Sing's chaplain that the Ossining Bastile harbored many a college graduate are due for another shock when they contemplate the presence of an alleged gentleman swindler on the Harvard faculty. It was bad enough to hear that men who had been higher-educated were slipping from the primrose path in some numbers; it is considerably worse to find that those who are hired to nurture them so carefully are often no better than they should...