Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shock we received from the last item is diminished but little, when it dawns upon us that the item was merely a tribute to western co-education. We find other tributes of a similar nature, for example, "MacPherson has a girl." "Adams called on Miss Harbrook Tuesday evening and was late in getting home." "Bronson spent last Sunday in Marshville. Bronson is spending too many Sundays in Marshville." "Hunter has a girl," etc., etc. All these items are refreshing. We read them, throw aside the western journals, lie back in our armchairs and think until we fall asleep. Then...
...Advocate and the Lampoon on the foot-ball field must be foregone. Our challenge has not been accepted. We did not expect that the staid elderly matron - the Advocate - would show the white feather. Black accords with your age and sombre disposition, respected maid of Harvard. Do not shock our taste by wearing white. As your formal edict has gone forth, declining the contest, please accept our hopes that you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner, and that many more are in store for you. We can understand why Lampy. displayed his discretion, rather than his valor, for we caused such...
...certain seed "fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some a hundred fold." The communication printed in another column in reference to a previous editorial on "religious decadence" at Harvard, as pictured in a prominent New York paper, is surely of the "hundred fold." We fully appreciate the shock which the writer's devout spirit has experienced at our "gross misrepresentation" of the article in question. It has never been the custom for a non-sectarian college newspaper man to read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon...
...those who felt the shock of a heavy explosion yesterday morning, imagined what its cause was. Around College House, however, all was bustle and excitement. Men but half awake, and hastily dressed were standing at a respectful distance from three windows which had been blown into atoms by some unseen force, and were awaiting a repetition of the shock with a mixture of awe and curiosity. However, as no second explosion took place, they became bold enough to inquire more closely into the cause...
...scientist at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., noted the shock of the Flood Rock explosion just one minute after the appointed time and just fifteen minutes before the explosion occurred. - Journal...