Word: shock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Euclid's laws suffered a somewhat severe shock when scientists stated that, according to this theory, there is no infinity. To the natural question of "What lies beyond the end?" the scientists answer that space so nearly approaches infinity that we would not be able to determine the difference...
...unexpected announcement of Professor Edward C. Pickering's death," said Professor Bailey, "brought instant response. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory, telegraphed, 'A great, unselfish man has gone. Our flag is at half-mast,' Hale, Director of the Solar Observatory, Mt. Wilson, 'Am greatly shocked and grieved, and hasten to send sincere sympathy.' Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa. 'The world has lost one of its great astronomical lights, and deans of science.' Plaskett, Director of the new Canadian Observatory, at Victoria, 'The news came to Mrs. Plaskett and me as a great shock and deep personal loss...
From the time he entered public life there was a sector of Harvard, partly among men of his own time, who disapproved of the radicalism which was bone of his bone; who were alarmed at the electric shock which he administered to the body politic, who shook their heads at the lack of respect for tradition and vested privileges, forgetting that the other Harvard Presidents, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Rutherford B. Hayes, all had the same spirited desire to help make the world over...
Word has been received of the recent death of Nathan Cook Brackett '21, which occurred while he was working at the Atlantic Ship Yards in Portsmouth, N. H. He was killed by shock when he touched a live wire while at work on an lion girder...
...rest. Mr. Dill's efforts to create atmosphere are at the same time overdone and stereotyped. His method is cumulative rather than selective, and for that reason he fails to convince. Mr. Sparks, though he is more successful, shows the disposition, frequent in the immature realist, to shock his reader by calling every spade a blasted shovel. In saying this I am aware that I am committing a sin which might be termed reviewer's overemphasis. For Mr. Sparks writes vividly and one does not forget what he says...