Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Device for Preventing Dog Nuisance consists of an electrical grille. "When, therefore, the device has been placed in position in front of a building, or the like, where dogs have been in the habit of committing a nuisance, the next one that attempts the act, will receive a severe shock ... by reason of the grounding of the current through the dog's body. After receiving one such shock it is believed that that particular locality will be shunned in the future by every dog so punished...
...Gullibility filled up the yawning chinks in the propaganda armor of the Allies. The outbreak of the War was a shock to the U. S.: some explanation of the disaster had to be found. The Allies' official defense supplied it-Germany was a criminal. U. S. grounds for this temporarily satisfying belief had already been plowed. ''Long before the great war propagandas began to develop from abroad, the leading organs of American opinion, through the interplay of haste, ignorance and their own psychological necessities, had begun to distinguish in the German Empire a vast, malignant power which...
...tired of leading the life of a young man of easy money. But I suffered a great shock. I was disappointed to learn the contemptible character of the men who were at work with me. Instead of idealists, I found men who thought of nothing but of what they could get out of it. I found the same thing both in Russia and in its spying organization. It was riddled with disillusion, self-interest and graft. These people were grabbing big sums for doing practically nothing.* At first I tried to reform them. I still burned with ideals. When Marjory...
Appended was an anecdote about a Soviet udarnik (shock-brigade worker) personally known to a Monitor Muscovite. The udarnik "recently visited a meeting at which the Communist organizer delivered a eulogy to Joseph Stalin. In his speech the organizer said: 'Our Stalin has led us from the first days of our Revolution to the present...
...century music. He finds that he must content himself with only two collections: early Bodleian music and the Drukmaeler series, good as these may be. Still undismayed, he decides to look over the century when chamber music and opera first flowered--from 1600 to 1700. It is a slight shock to find that the shelves are quite innocent of most of such music, in spite of the fact that much of what he is seeking has been published. Being a persevering fellow, he doggedly goes to the eighteenth century, where again he finds little beyond Bach, Handel, Rameau, Mozart...