Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jason Franklin Chase, 54, internationally famed Cerberus of public morals, 19 years Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society; in West Roxbury, Mass., of pneumonia and shock. His field of supervision included narcotics, prostitution, gambling, literature. His status was both private and official. Member of the Massachusetts Committee on Sex Publications, he was four times appointed by President Wilson delegate to the International Purity Federation...
...always been understood that this liberal spirit was to be found in even greater measure in the Law School. It comes as a distinct shock, therefore, to learn that a member of the School who is guilty of missing a single lecture, is deemed by Dean Pound to be "prima facie an undesirable student", and is threatened with expulsion. It is true that all hope is not lost. Perfect behavior on the part of the "undesirable" may avert the consequences of his grave misconduct. But the taint of the original sin remains forever...
...Scarcely had we emerged from the building when another and more violent shock seemed to cleave the earth asunder, throwing every one to the ground. Here we remained prostrate and stunned, expecting death at any moment...
...Antonio, Tex., smiled pityingly at an elderly gentleman whose two broken ribs and fractured collarbone they were plastering last week. He had been run down by a motorcycle -another one of these dizzy old jaywalkers, they supposed. But when they finished their ministrations, the hospital folk had a shock. The patient felt his casts, winced a bit, straightened his good shoulder and announced that he would leave town at once as he had entered it, by airplane. He was on his way from Los Angeles to Mitchell Field, N. Y., and could not delay longer, he said. Doctors expostulated, bystanders...
Harvard will admit that the Yale spirit, that intense sentiment of community loyalty, has its merits (for Yale men); but Harvard's own tradition has in modern times been individualistic. Harvard has grown from a small college to a large college with perhaps the minimum of shock; there are more individuals than there used to be, but the individual is the unit...