Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Benito issued a decree giving protection to tenants against rent-raising landlords. The landlords protested, declared that the new measure would shake their confidence in Fascismo, discourage construction. Answered Mussolini...
...critical that Coach Shaw has dispensed with the probation crew of past years and has lined up the Freshmen on the red, white, and blue crews irrespective of their eligibility. Inasmuch as every encouragement is being given these men to study and to get off probation, the April shake-up, caused by men coming off probation, will be eliminated. Men who still remain on probation after the April examinations will be dropped from the squad...
...well the contrast between Cox and Wilson by asking each what was the outstanding feature of the President's office. Said Wilson: "The power of decisions." Said Cox: "The power to take a situation by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers and shake a result out of it." If William G. McAdoo is out of the race, then Cox and Reed are prepared to take the League issue- the one by the nape of the neck and the other, the seat of the trousers -and shake out a result...
...last contest with the Blue, Hodder fractured a bone on his hand, while a few days later Chisholn banged his knee in a practice session with the New Haven Bears. The Crimson right wing had proved himself a baffing stick-handler, and Coach Winsor had to devise a radical shake-up to fill his place. Bodder has been practicing with the team for the last week, but he still lacks the strength in his aiming hand to make his shots at the same time fast and accurate. He is expected to see action some of the time tonight...
Throughout the season Coach Winsor has been the adviser for the Boston Hockey Club. After the club had suffered a series of defeats recently, Owen was moved up to center in order to shake off the team's staleness. The shake-up was momentarily successful, as the Hockey Club trimmed the Maples handily last Tuesday, although it lost to the Bears on Saturday. If the subs come into action tonight, as they undoubtedly will, followers of the sport believe that a similar shift might be made in the course of the game tonight. Harvard Princeton Austin, l.w. r.w., A. Davis...