Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in the Yard are daily inflicted with five minutes of sleep destroying agony. When inquiries are made concerning this nerve-shattering tocsin, the reply is invariable: that the bell has always been rung at seven, and probably will always be rung at seven, until its vibrations will have shaken down the very pillars which support...
...unpleasant technicalities of the subject. And what, pray, is the result? This Bolshevik advance agent commits the crowning folly of his clown-like career by politely declining the aid of the Hasty Pudding's marked dramatic talent. Although our faith in the efficiency of Bolshevik methods is badly shaken by this incident, we nevertheless still wish to be convented if possible and we are pleased by the announcement, that in spite of the unknown Bolshevik's veiled insinuation as to the bourgeois character of the Pudding, the club will not desist from its determination to present "Crowns and Clowns...
Even in the imminent presence of the enemy, and while serving with their whole strength, Oxford and Cambridge can keep alive their old spirit. So much the more ought we, who have not been shaken so seriously, to remember and revere the academic traditions of the University...
That trust has not been shaken one jot. That enthusiasm has not waned, although it has become tempered and sobered. It is not that a possible defeat is staring us in the face and that it is consequently good for our national morale. Such theories may be effective with an athletic team, but they do not apply to nations. Yet it is incontrovertible that an appreciation of the real gravity of a situation is a source of strength. To carry on a good fight one must know what the measure of his antagonist is. Now for the first time...
...alone that stirs the continents. It is the travail of the new order of life which is to supercede the past. It is the unrest of men with conditions which have endured too long. The old order is shaken; we live in a volcanic...