Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allen Johnson, 60, historian, editor since 1926 of the Dictionary of American Biography, onetime (1910-26) Lamed Professor of American History at Yale, editor (1918-21) of Chronicles of America, author of many a historical work (Stephen A. Douglas, Union and Democracy, Jefferson and His Colleagues, et al.); of shock after being struck by an automobile; in Washington...
...same position in Rome as in Rivertown, the same conservative point of view, the same worries and troubles with labor agitators. As in real life, Lucius finds the issue confused for him by falling in love with Marcia a rabid Red. When she is killed in his arms the shock brings him back to Rivertown again, and the first thing he learns is that the real Marcia has really been killed. Then he is in a chaos. Still violently opposed to the Reds, he begins to doubt the divine right of his own convictions, thinks "Maybe this is another religion...
Year ago Nelson Trusler Johnson, energetic new U. S. Minister to China, arrived in Peiping, gave foreign correspondents the shock of their lives by delivering a long fluent speech in perfect Chinese...
...normal breathing, carbon dioxide taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...
Having spent a thoughtful life among books (his tasks having included editing Ivanhoe and Travels with a Donkey), Dr. Cross was much better prepared to receive the shock, so pleasant to him, than were most other Connecticut citizens. Few of the scores of thousands of voters who poured forth to mark ballots for him had any real idea he could win from Boss Roraback's man, Lieut. Governor Ernest E. Rogers. In August the State had looked pretty Democratic ? especially the big cities like Bridgeport and New Haven and some of the little ones like Danbury...