Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men have borne up bravely under the news of various faculty losses this year, but the news that Mike, the famous Mike of the tattered Crimson flag and Crimson sweater, is to take a sabbatical year in Ireland came last night as a distinct shock...
...Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
After the first shock, the crew settled down very quickly. The envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water...
...young plants, they are building up their world from within and getting themselves adjusted to it just now, they are browsing about, picking up a precious bit of truth here in a lecture, there in a book, or yonder among their fellows. Our job is to give them a shock now and then and stimulate the endogenous development that each one must supervise for himself. That is all we can do, and when we try to do more, we hinder the process...
...Harvard students with literary ambitions English 5 has for years been regarded as the one course which had to be taken to put the last formal touches to their native genius. After the shock occasioned by the announcement of Dean Briggs' forthcoming departure had given way to feelings of confirmed tragedy, embryonic literati who had hoped to take this advanced course in English composition began to murmur: "What is to become of us? Is English 5 to be no more...