Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, James Arati, 71, Nurseryman, hoeing shrubs, stirred up a swarm of hornets. One bit him on the lip. He died of shock...
...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
...Obregon socialist-labor government to decorate buildings in a way peons could comprehend, he painted many frescoes devoted to a panorama of Mexican life. One of the charges against him is "desecration of public buildings" by use of "figures which, while not lacking in artistic perfection, nevertheless prove a shock to the conservative tastes of certain classes...
...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than it would have on the screen. Paul's dream of ultramodern warfare on land, sea and air, with poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself would necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes of soldiers, five tanks "bigger and uglier than any contemporary tanks," a battleship which explodes - and, on top of all this, New York...