Word: shudder
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...Though a shudder ran through the whole air transport business, public confidence was apparently not seriously shaken. Last week's bookings were reported normal. Meanwhile airlines increased their already enormous precautions to prevent a recurrence of last winter's disasters. Schedules were slowed up, deicers fitted, cruising range extended, U.A.L. quickly raised the instrument flying altitude over the mountainous stretch of the "worst U. S. airplane accident'' from...
...pretty hard to pass judgment on a picture such as this. The opening seenen of bayonet technique were amusing to the audience when in reality they were far more horrible in their subtlety than the more obvious scenes of death and destruction which make audiences shudder. Miss George is almost over-sincere and shows her age, Mr. Tracy does as well as the script allows him, and though his portrayal seems a bit of a patch-work, it is not his fault. Furthermore, the film falls a little flat in its climax...
Through the Berkshires again went the shudder of the Speer murder mystery. Out went a police alarm for Thomas Edwin Elder, who was arrested next day at his Alton farm. He waived extradition, was taken to Greenfield. His alibi was simple: he said he had spent all the night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story...
...long been the custom of liberals the world over to shudder at the thought of that military competition between nations known as an "armament race". However, with world conditions as they are today, exactly the opposite view should be taken of the phenomenon. For the cause of democracy in general nothing could be of greater advantage than an arms race. The major countries upholding popular government are Great Britain, France, the United States, and, if one is charitable, Russia. At any rate, the first three named are in the vanguard, and, by a coincidence lucky for democracy, are the three...
...warm and sunny up there. The workers were joshing each other about the softness of their jobs. Suddenly there was a jar as a corner bracket snapped and tilted the great platform. "It gave a funny shudder and lurched," said Lambert. In an instant another corner came loose. ''I felt everything slipping. There was nothing to hang to. So I hollered and jumped into the net. I hit the net just before the staging struck it. The net sagged slowly and then the ropes popped and the net gave way with a sound like thunder. It was like...