Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting gamely in a hopeless cause the Varsity cagers went down to defeat before the Green five at Hanover on Saturday by a 37 to 24 score. Jack Mason, one of the Sophomore shock troops playing at forward was Harvard's high scorer with eight points to his credit...
...Before the Soviet power can fulfill its function it must be established throughout the world-that is what it was born for!" declared Stalin's Stetsky, "Our country is the shock brigade of the World Proletariat. We will continue to fight as a Proletarian Dictatorship for the World Revolution...
...Olympic Club battle, Duffey was playing with Moseley instead of John Callaway and that combination scored all of Harvard's tallies. Perhaps Duffey was too rough and Stubbs is trying to keep him on the bench with Dewey to be used as shock troops but it seems probable that there will be a shakeup in the announced lines...
...citizens not politically minded, Franklin Roosevelt is still what he became on March 5, 1933 the night of his first fireside talk: "our beloved President," Franklin the Good. To political realists, who try to regard him as a man and a maker of policies, he has given one shock after another, upsetting all attempts to identify him. In spring 1933 (banking crisis) they labeled him Man of the Hour. In summer 1933 (Economy Act, NRA) they relabeled him Man of Recovery. In autumn and winter 1933-34 (dollar devaluation; spending program) they relabeled him Man of Experiment. In the spring...
...world, last week got a new job: production chief at Paramount. Never before in the history of the industry has so spectacular a director been considered sufficiently responsible to run a major studio. The appointment caused Hollywood to rattle with astonishment. Director Lubitsch caustically suggested that the shock was due to the fact that he is a picturemaker not a banker, got to work on conference with the directors whose productions he will henceforth supervise. To help him in the details of his new job that he knows least about, he will have a "general manager": Henry Herzbrun, the shrewd...