Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exchange.* This despite the fact that their business this spring has not been so good as usual due: 1) to the absence of an influenza epidemic last winter; 2) to the smaller purchasing power of drugstore customers affected by current unemployment and business depression. This second cause is a shock to both manufacturing druggists and retailers. They had held the idea that the need for drugstore medicines was a constantly rising factor in society, independent of business conditions. The apparent reason for no falling-off last week of the eight drug corporations' stocks was that malaise accumulated during...
Cured. On the theory that shock sometimes relieves deafness, one D. Allen Dittman of Waynesburg, Pa. went aloft over Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, last week with Pilot Chester Pickup. At 10,000 ft. Pilot Pickup put his plane into a power dive. At 7,000 ft. the terrific pressure shattered the windshield, the glass cutting Pickup's face, momentarily stunning him. Unable to regain control, Pickup motioned Dittman to jump with him. Dittman, whose 'chute failed to open until he had dropped to 1,000 ft., landed on the roof of an open hearth furnace of Carnegie Steel...
...undergraduate daily at the University of Washington has questioned a ruling of a western university's faculty forbidding communists from discussing their doctrines on the Washington campus. It is something of a shock to discover that this most recent suppression of the freedom of thought should take place in an educational center theoretically dedicated to independent thinking...
...stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange it over the "back of the chair, standing so that the whole audience may know that Stokowski has arrived...
...Davidovich Bronstein, middleaged, nearsighted, hooknosed, big-lipped, spectacled, with a shock of greying hair, is an exile on the island of Prinkipo in the Sea of Marmosa. Once, as Leon Trotsky, he was second most powerful Russian. Lenin's right-hand man. In My Life he gives the story of his rise, decline, fall...