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Word: shockingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/11/1928 | See Source »

...those who are in any degree sophisticates, this murder mystery, of which the scene is a "deserted" church overpopulated with skull-headed bats and international criminals, will seem hardly more terrifying than a picture of Daddy Browning saying "Boo!" to an African gander. Those who are more willing shock-absorbers will conceivably shiver at its second-hand devices and be ready to believe that the door-slammings and women-screechings were really all part of a plan for trapping a desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...severe shock has been sustained by the University polo team by the loss, temporarily at least, of Captain W.H. White '28, who is recovering from an operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed by Dr. T.K. Richards '15, at Stillman Infirmary. White's condition is reported satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN WHITE OF POLO TEAM MAY BE OUT OF YALE GAME | 5/1/1928 | See Source »

...shock of a helium nucleus crashing into the nucleus of a nitrogen atom causes an explosion which disintegrates the atom. Out of the wreck a new fluorine atom emerges, but not for long. It explodes immediately, shooting off a furiously fast atom of hydrogen and a slower atom of a new kind of oxygen which is heavier than either the helium or the nitrogen atom. According to Einstein's theory, when helium is formed from lighter hydrogen atoms, energy is given off (enough to heat an ordinary house from 500 to 1 ,000 years in the formation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Edward, the third son, who died in 1922, founded the Hartford Shock Absorber Company, recently inactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A & P Attacked | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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