Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail...
...Shock...
...comparison with Long Beach. Los Angeles only got a good shaking. Nevertheless, of the 375 schools in the Los Angeles School District, 142 suffered earthquake damage. Parents could be thankful that the shock did not hit until late afternoon. Gimcrackery in the prevailing neo-Gothic style fell in cruel heaps, would have mangled children trying to escape...
...responsibility for unsound building construction. Architects reminded the Board of Education that no major earthquake had been officially anticipated, that in a desperate effort to house the county's rapidly expanding school enrolments, many new buildings had been walled with cheap veneers which simply could not withstand seismic shock...
...Gengé and thought him a dear silly fellow. Townsfolk called him "the usurer." When he tried to catch a glimpse of himself as he really was, he found- nothing. The more he brooded over his undiscoverable identity the more despairing he became. Finally, in ah attempt to shock people's idea of him into something resembling his own, he played what seemed like such a strange practical joke that his wife left him, his friends tried to have him committed to an asylum. At the cost of surrendering all his possessions to the Church he kept his liberty...