Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coroner Edwin Smith was not surprised at the result of the old man's first and last bath. Commented Doctor Smith: "There are some persons who are entire strangers to baths." Cause of death: "reflex syncope" (shock...
...businessmen had heard of modern oil prospecting by "artificial"' earthquakes and other geophysical methods. At Harmarville they saw how it was done. A charge of dynamite in the ground was detonated. The earth tremors were recorded on a seismograph mounted on a truck some distance away. From the shock record the speed of the tremors was deduced, and from that the geological character of the ground. Also on view were gravity instruments so sensitive that they detect the moon's tidal pull on the earth. With such equipment, said Research Director Paul Darwin Foote, the chance...
...molecules in diameter can be made out. Through this last week the touring troupe saw the microscopic structure of metal. The laboratory until recently also had a few sheep which, because their internal organs are much like those of humans, make good subjects for studying the effects of electric shock and methods of resuscitation...
...great Scotsman lay dying in London Clinic Nursing Home last week while his doctors kept from him the fact that Britain has filled the Mediterranean with war boats. The shock of knowing that, they said, would surely kill Arthur Henderson. Wracked by jaundice and gallstones at 72, he was still president of the General Disarmament Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...
...Lords and Masters gives a general impression of glibness and self-confidence, succeeds in rendering international affairs even more bewildering than newspaper readers could have guessed. Like an experienced side-show barker, Unofficial Observer announces that his exhibit of contemporary world leaders, wire-pullers and heroes is guaranteed to shock, startle and enlighten, that it is of momentous importance to average citizens, that it must be seen to be believed...