Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That small, oval, reddish-gray body, appended to the brain, is made up of two separately active lobes. The rear one exudes a valuable drug, which has been ingeniously injected to speed heartbeat, to increase blood pressure, or to make muscles contract. It is used in cases of surgical shock, in obstetrics, after abdominal surgery...
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, air pioneer, president of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co., has never had a serious accident in a plane. But last week he suffered many bruises and a severe shock when a speeding automobile crashed into the parked automobile in which he was sitting, near Auburn...
...could be determined, however, the quake was about 4000 miles distant, and was estimated to have arisen in Mexico. This is the second disturbance within a month in that country, a severe shock having been recorded on March 22. The exact location of the disturbance will be known in a week, when records of seismographs throughout the country have been compared in Washington. The double quake was probably caused by two strata of rock slipping simultaneously...
Have you ever had any great mental shock...
Francis John McConnell, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh, stated a postulate that would surprise and shock all sturdy U. S. Fundamentalists: "I come from a Nation which is in some respects pagan. We subscribe to the doctrine of militarism and to the god of materialism, and we have given ourselves over to the pursuit of wealth. We should not be complacent regarding paganism. . . . Let this meeting become a challenge...