Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shock after news shock smote the sensitive Japanese people last week, made them feel that their Empire is menaced by insidious foes, made them prouder than ever of their nutbrown, nut-hard Army...
Exclusive dispatches flashed from China's capital. Nanking, to Japan's leading newsorgans Nichi-Nichi (Tokyo) and Mainichi (Osaka), delivered the first shock to 4.000.000 slant-eyed readers. They read that a smart Japanese journalist claimed to have caught U. S. Minister to China Nelson Trusler Johnson in a piece of "backdoor diplomacy" as amazing as it would be unfriendly to Japan...
...France since 1890, he sailed at last in December 1928, for Brazil. His return was an heroic but tragic event. The official plane Alberto Santos-Dumont flew forth to greet the hero apropos, fell into a tailspin, drowned all 14 greeters. Alberto Santos-Dumont never recovered from the shock...
...Merion, Pa., home. By himself he has built three motor cars, three motor boats which he keeps at his summer lome in Camden, Maine. He has invented a combination gas & oil burner, folding skates, a system of pivoted reflections to vary the resonance of a piano, a shock absorber...
...maneuver in which the U. S. Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded machine-gun mount. Reason: Government regulations forbid the export of any model, less than one year old, of fighting equipment built...