Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock of President Briggs' death is so great that it is impossible at this time to put into words his service to Radcliffe College and the devotion which Radcliffe women have felt...
...sense of loss on the part of the University that he has served. No matter for how many years he has been in office, nor how exacting the work which he has carried on his shoulders, the announcement of his impending retirement invariably has an element of surprise and shock. It seems impossible that one who has been so close to the life of the institution can ever...
...never made public. The Secret Service maintains 36 local bureaus, whose heads must necessarily be accessible and known. It is estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through a barred window he can look across the lawn...
...Inventor Claud H. Foster who named it for Gabriel's trumpet. He later devised an ingenious contraption using a spring in a box to take up an automobile's road bounce. He called it a snubber, called his company Gabriel Manufacturing Co., now Gabriel Co., maker of shock absorbers and other auto accessories. Founder Foster (now retired) long paid Ohio's biggest income tax, in one year...
This week U. S. readers got a real treat when for once they were offered a book that would neither harrow their feelings, shame their social consciences, shock their susceptibilities nor arouse their baser impulses. Worlds apart from the concerns of their everyday lives, Seven Gothic Tales opens a window on a refreshingly different world-the world of "Isak Dinesen." Like their romantically pseudonymous author, these seven stories are romantic, but with a difference. Each has the depth of a well-conceived novel. Removed from the U. S. reader in time (the 19th Century) and place (Italy, France, Germany, Denmark...