Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock-cord crew of ten men stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then...
...insulin prepared from the pancreas of hogs or oxen. But to regulate the action of the insulin (i.e., prevent too great a reduction of blood sugar) a strict diet must be observed. The danger of insulin treatment is that the patient by relaxing his diet may get an hypoglycemic shock-break into a cold sweat, have convulsions, collapse. Unless a physician is on hand to give an injection of glucose solution he may even...
...Diego, Calif., Mrs. Grace Cleaves, after two months of waiting for the removal of eye bandages, cried: "I can see! Oh, thank God!", died of joyous shock...
...speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...
...title to an illustration of "Hanging Rocks, Sachuset Beach, R. I.," will shock natives who know of nothing but "Sachuest." But the name, like most Indian names, has been as shifting as the sands which have built in at the rate of three feet a year and left the rocks, where once the Dean sat gaping seaward, hanging only over dry land...