Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilks, vicar of St. John's in Holmfirth, England was startled in his study to hear the bell of his church given one sudden, unwonted Bong...
Immoderately excited and inquisitive, Vicar Wilks stood it as long as he could, then asked the man and woman the reason for their sudden happiness. They readily explained. Afterward the vicar told newshawks, adding that the prominence of the two prevented giving their names...
...iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise. Of this the principal makes such a scandal that the child goes...
Naturally, when these people enter college, as they do in ever increasing numbers as the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural, they do not make a sudden metamorphosis and become pious. Nor would they be able to do this if it were required of them. True piety can be won by the individual alone. He must experience deeply much of life, and he must suffer. Since modern living conditions tend to remove the opportunities for meditation and suffering, or at least to postpone such opportunities till after college life, large numbers of students are excusably irreligious...
Suspected cause of the explosion was a sudden giving-away of the boat's 26-year-old boilers, though they had passed official inspection two months before. But also two months ago a local ironworkers' union had complained that the boat was undermanned, overcrowded, unseaworthy. Four separate investigations were launched, while divers grappled for the sunken boilers...