Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reprimand TIME'S correspondent for failing to see Mr. Coolidge rise to shake hands with Mr. Hoover at the Inauguration when no less a personage than Sir Walter Raleigh himself was deceived by his own eyes...
...with the idea of causing rat bite fever to shake some of the paralysis out of the Illinois paretics that the Hershfield group infected them. Only ten patients died during the treatment, and of those only two deaths could be directly attributed to the infection. Of the others, Dr. Hershfield reported last week, half were more or less physically improved and 20% showed some mental improvement...
...they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers...
...went to school and never had books to read and learn from. He had no chance, and yet it was not his fault but his misfortune. The change in his life came when he found God. "I am as sure that I found God as I am that I shake hands with you, that the sun is shining; just as certain as a scientist who works out his positive laws...
Weatherbeaten yachtsmen, grizzled veterans of the briny off-shore deep, were somewhat inclined to shake their heads over such cushy concessions to landsmen as wicker chairs, percolators, automobile steering wheels. Yet motor boat makers well retorted that the motor boat is a pleasure craft, that a large proportion of its buyers are looking chiefly for a seagoing automobile, that it is women who furnish the chief sales resistance and for whose sake galleys, for example, are sometimes described as "kitchenettes." It is with the amateur sailor that the future of the motor boat lies...