Word: shake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...risk it. As it is, all has turned out very well. Elsie is the first respectable woman under sixty who has come to Bodie, and she is creating a regular furor. She holds a reception every evening; the miners form in line and, one after the other, shake hands with her, and have a few minutes' talk. Some of them, who left wife and family East, come away with tears in their eyes. If any one strikes an unusually fine piece of ore, he presents it to Elsie. She has a trunkful already, that must be worth thousands...
...very best team to New Haven Saturday. Up to this time the freshman team has worked hard and effectively under very good management, so that a short time ago their friends entertained the greatest hopes of final success. The loss of several of their best men ought not to shake all this confidence and produce a corresponding depression, as it seems to have done. There is yet time to fill the vacant places with strong players out of the large list of candidates, who can again raise the standard and bring the class the desired victory. The college is watching...
...case very minutely, and the president listened with the greatest attention. When the freshman had finished, the president said, "And you cleaned them out?" "Yes," was the answer. "I congratulate you upon your success," said the president as he took the boy's hand and gave it a hearty shake...
...said to fairly open for Harvard. Though it can hardly be said that out-door sports will be fully inaugurated until after the April recess, yet the first formal athletic event of general interest to the entire university is today's gymnastic exhibition; with it "ye Harvard men" shake off the lethargy of the winter, cull out their first holiday, and flock in festive throngs to admire and applaud the prowess and industry of their brother athletes. The great examination in Gymnastics 1, advanced sections, is posted on today's bulletin, and universal expectation is that marks will run commendably...
...University Hall, where an address of welcome will be delivered by acting President Frieze, and responded to by President Angell. After various other addresses an adjournment will be taken to one of the larger lecture rooms, where Prex. will hold an informal reception, at which all so desiring may shake the returned president by the hand. With this touching ceremony the festivities close. It is rumored that the mayor of Ann Arbor, with his usual desire to preserve the public peace, has caused a force of special policemen to be sworn in for service on the day of reception, lest...