Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shock to most men to learn coldly that Germany's submarine war is a far greater peril than we had supposed, that the famed advance against the western front is recovering slowly by inches what Germany took rapidly by yards, that many good men are dying in order that the red fields of France may be once more free. We are learning that the German morale is not yet broken, that some millions of the finest war-trained troops, armed with all that modern science may give to the soldier, are holding fiercely that French and Belgian land which they...
...warfare. Now, however, drill officers have appeared who have been themselves participants in the battles of France and Flanders. With these officers marching and drilling with us here in the Square, Harvard can no longer consider herself removed from the real conflict. To some this may come as a shock, but to all it will be an inspiration...
When the seismograph is sufficiently sensitive it is possible to tell not only the position of the hostile artillery, but also its calibre--the last requiring a practised eye. It is also possible to distinguish in the tremors recorded by the instrument the difference between shocks produced by the fall of projectiles, and those caused by the recoil of the guns. It is through the shock produced by the fall of the projectile that the calibre of the firing battery may be determined...
...Medical School lectures IV. "'Shock' in the Trenches." Dr. W. T. Porter. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very little allusion. But the total effect is conventionality. We get no new ideas, no new sensations, not even a shock, except perhaps in Mr. Paulding...