Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspection last week what seemed to be a young man. "I knew this person's father well," certified General Li. "This person, when a child, was undoubtedly a girl. I am positive of that. Little by little the change took place, until the last stage which was most sudden and occurred during a thunderstorm. After the convulsion of a great clap of thunder, this person appeared to have become a manly youth. Superstitious people think there has been, an act of the Gods. I say it is for Science to decide...
...Newark, N. J. last December a hit-&-run driver bashed into a pedestrian, bursting one of his lungs. So dramatic was the sudden ballooning of the victim's entire body that Dr. John Mahoney Atkinson, young house surgeon of Newark City Hospital, got special permission to publish a description of the phenomenon and how he cured it, in last week's issue of the American Journal of Surgery...
...University Business Manager, fell victim to the faulty architecture. What Mr. Durant exclaimed as he lost his balance remains a mystery. Eye witnesses refuse to divulge any account of his remarks. Evidently the-occurrences must have made a profound impression, however. Yesterday morning in places of the old sudden drop just within the doorway, a shiny new platform sloping gently to the floor greeted the entrants. Thus the old landmarks pass. Thus the power of important men is utilized to rectify the faults in our slowly advancing civilization...
Weld Boat House also opened its doors for the first time this year and many scullers reported despite the sudden coolness of the weather...
Once last summer when businessmen were jittery over Government finances, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau declared that the Government's $2,800,000,000 gold "profit" realized on dollar devaluation was "under lock & key." And to end all fear of the sudden emission of $2,800,000,000 of new money, President Roosevelt called the gold profit a "nest egg to be disposed of only in the indefinite future...