Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earthquake 36 hours after Dr. R. A. Daly of the Geology Department delivered a lecture at Lowell Institute on earthquakes and the effect a quake would have in Boston. Dr. Daly stated in his speech that owing to the solid formation of the earth here that a shock would cause little destruction...
According to Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department, the University seismograph showed that the shock occurred at 8.07 o'clock yesterday and lasted for 45 seconds. He believes that yesterday's quake was due to a shifting, either vertically or horizontally, of the great Fundian fault in the earth's crust which is submerged under the Bay of Fundy. He bases his opinions on the fact that the two waves of the shock came in quick succession. A quake always divides into two waves which separate as the earthquake travels. Since the two shocks were simultaneous, the origin...
...find Leonard Merrick treating of miscegenation is something of a shock, like seeing an amiable young lepidopterist drop his butterfly net and go in for heavyweight pugilism...
...those sniffers who insist that the politician and the intellectual are at opposite poles of humanity, the nominations for the approaching senatorial election in Connecticut will come as a severe shock. The Republican nominee is Professor Bingham of Yale, whose title is almost a guarantee of his mental superiority. The Democratic nomince is Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. Neither of them is a mere theorist, however, for they have both engaged enthusiastically in the rough and tumble of political controversies...
Cheek, Nash, and Spalding, who have also been out of the game for several weeks, are not likely to get in. If by any chance Coach Fisher springs a surprise and reveals his large list of injured as mostly camouflage, the dopesters and gamblers may get a severe shock...