Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upset of the powerful Princeton nine by the supposedly mediocre Harvard aggregation at Solders Field last Saturday has given the base ball dopesters the shock of the season and convinced the Harvard men who saw the game or who read about it in the Sunday sporting columns that the Crimson has a real team. The forecasters who on Saturday morning unhesitantly ranked Princeton first, Yale second, and Harvard third, are pondering on the most graceful way to hedge...
Whatever the results of this curious exportation may be, they promise to be of peculiar interest to Americans. It may prove a most beneficial shock to somewhat provincial citizens to view "theatres, schools, and laws" modelled on their own through the clarifying perspective of the Atlantic...
...devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock to the presidential educator to scan the reading lists of English...
...announcement that twenty six percent of the Freshman class is on probation comes as somewhat of a shock to the unsophisticated individual who believes that probation is an academic punishment designed for the occasional dull or lazy student. The figures certainly indicate that the Freshman on probation, if not quite the average student, is far from the abnormal one; and only little less clearly that this form of discipline has begun to lose all significance and to become a mere nuisance...
...country was treated to something of a shock recently, when it was announced that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Coöperative National Bank of Cleveland had joined with the National City Company in a public offering of $3,000,000 International Great Northern Railway Company 6% first mortgage bonds. Never before has a Labor bank gone directly into the investment banking field. Moreover, it was regarded as significant that the first appearance of the Brotherhood. Bank should be made jointly with the National City Company, the investment subsidiary of the largest bank in this country. The Labor bank...