Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, to Sir James Hamet Dunn of London; in Paris. Died. George M. Stadelman, 52, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Vice President of the Rubber Association of America, pioneer U. S. rubber manufacturer, onetime carriage tire salesman; at Akron, Ohio, suddenly, possibly as result of a shock sustained when thugs not long ago forced Mr. and Mrs. Stadelman to aid them in ransacking the Stadelman home...
...shock recorded on the seismograph in the Geological Museum on Thursday afternoon was an earth tremor of unknown origin, according to an announcement made yesterday by Professor K. F. Mather of the Geological Department...
...Until the recording tape had been taken out yesterday morning," said Professor Mather, "we were not quite sure whether the shock was an explosion of some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
From the University of Chicago comes a Committee report which delves into the mysterious realm of students' time. With something of a shock the investigators discovered that the mythical average student spent but 36 hours a week at his studies, devoted little time to serious reading and far too much to outside activities...
...have been the wife of Leopold Stokowski* from 1911 to 1923 would have filled life with sufficient eventfulness for most mortals, for few men have been more lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...