Word: quiverful
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There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth-to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault...
...wonder. Savages used to abase themselves before the frown of God, and a religious ritual is still celebrated by Mohammedans on these days. Civilized man smiles at primitive superstition, and yet he is not different from his ancestor, for he still feels within himself the same quiver of respect. But with it is mingled a vast pride in man-made science which charts out and predicts even the minutest movements of the planets. The scientist, on this day, receives the full meed of popular awe before his divination...
There is no more esteemed confection in the Executive Department of the Government than the word economy. It rolls with a quiver of delight on the tongue of the President. It rolls and rolls again on the tongue of the Director of the Budget. The Cabinet munch it at their meetings. Only last week, Secretary Hoover offered the dainty morsel again for the President's tasting in the annual report of the Department of Commerce...
...ordeal of final examinations, it hardly seems appropriate for Dr. Donald A. Laird, Association Professor of Psychology at Colgate University, to come out with the results of his latest researches in the field of insanity. Dr. Laird apparently has no scruples about publishing his gruesome findings. Without a single quiver of sympathy, he asserts that whereas only one man in fourteen hundred and one woman in eighteen hundred outside universities are subject to mental disorders, the percentage within academic walls is a great deal higher; to be accurate one out of every thousand...
...fried in oil or pleasantly stimulated, perhaps, with red hot pincers. Times change, however. Galileo, in an effort to keep his self respect without losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...