Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Prentice dived to rescue her, injured his head against an underwater projection, but dragged Mrs. Schultz to apparent safety. She died, according to physicians, "from immersion and shock...
...condition known during the war as shell-shock is by no means as uncommon among young college students as might be thought. In this connection the doctor points out, Harvard is fortunate in having the services of Dr. H. A. Shaw '89, whose long service as surgeon in the United States Army and later at the Psychopathic Hospital in Boston has especially fitted him for such work with young...
...confusion of styles, aphorisms, hymns, epithets and curses that are composed with such violence and passion. As a broad, general treatment, this book will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected and even liked him." They could not help reacting favorably to his obvious sincerity, earestness and courage...
...There are naive libertarians who comfort and delude themselves with the theory that if only everything were printable, and if, everything could be photographed, we should arrive at a condition where nothing would shock the moralist and nothing would excite anybody. . . . The purging power of frankness does not fit these spectacles. It may be that when the tabloids have squeezed the last bit of sensation out of the Rhinelander case, for example, their public would then be bored with another spectacle dealing with miscegenation; that after the Browning case their public will for a time be immunized against further interest...
Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...