Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today Dr. Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white hair, has spoken before 297 local presbyteries. The Philadelphia fundamentalists who founded the ''rebel'' missions board (TIME, April 23), complained loudly before the Cleveland assembly because the General Council of the Church had issued a pamphlet detailing how illegal the board is. Last week...
...interrogate each other as to the properties of morphine-that is analogous to asking someone what letter follows "A" in the alphabet; fifthly, there is not a hospital to be found where even a mere interne doesn't know the difference between diabetic coma and insulin shock-no argument necessary, there are just about ten good signs to differentiate the law hastly, residents aren't ever that good handling. Yes, I am a medic...
Senate. This year he felt certain of getting the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Felix Hebert-and 1934 looks hopefully Democratic. Last week, however, the distinguished onetime Senator had an unpleasant shock. A person named Goucher (pronounced Gooshay) had announced that he too was going out for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Goucher is also distinguished. His paternal family is of old French stock. His great-grandfather and two great-grand uncles were the founders of Goucher College for Women in Baltimore. He was the 14th in a family of 17 children; his schooling had extended only up to the third...
...Literal translation of the first two verses: With banner high and ranks firmly closed The shock troops march with steady stride. Our comrades, shot by Red Front and Reaction March in spirit in our ranks. Clear the street for the brown battalions Clear the street for the shock troops! Already hopeful millions look to the swastika; The day of Freedom and of Bread is dawning...
...ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact"). Journey to the End of the Night will shock many a U.S. reader by its almost unrelieved unsentimentality. Physiological rather than...