Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voluntary amalgamation may be encouraged and expedited. The President believes that consolidation is the only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation and satisfactory adjustment of freight rates. His proposals merit thoughtful consideration. Yet those who appreciate the magnitude and difficulty of the task may shake their heads when they read that the entire freight rate structure of the country should be reorganized and that such action should be reorganized and that such action should be ordered at once by Congress. Such extensive revision of the entire rate structure will require an enormous amount of study...
...English Consulate at Jidda-a two years' saga of fortitude. And every stone, every plant, every beast on the way he observed with an eye as impartial as an angel's, set down the history and peculiarities of every tribe he met, passed through enough adventures to shake the soul of an Argive chief. Ten more years went to the writing of his travels. Those 20 years have built him a monument well nigh unique in literary history- the unique and magnificent story of a unique and magnificent exploit-one of the few cases where...
...people had so kindly received him, and how he had enjoyed their hospitality and had shared their sorrows and joys. " Thus we learned to know, understand and appreciate each other. Now the mo- ment has come that I must bid farewell to Wieringen and would like to shake you all by the hand, thanking you for all you gave me. Terribly difficult years they were for me, far from my Fatherland and family, but they were made bearable by the friendly human feelings of Wieringers. So I say farewell, wishing my island the best of luck from the bottom...
...wild animals, and took to the road. Later out of business courtesy or for advertising purposes. Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts and the natural history course became overcrowded. By such means were lands terrestrial familiarized; going to Africa was thought no more of than going to get a milk-shake. Then within a few decades the South and North Poles were "exposed" and it was found, much to the chagrin of romanticists, that there was no evidence of a race of web-footed gentlemen who were wont to use their feet for sun shades...
...battle is largely one of diplomacy. Poincare and Baldwin may meet in Paris, shake hands and act as the best of friends, but underneath they are both using all their powers to win the approval of the world and particularly of the United States, and to get into the strategic position to enforce their point of view. France wants security; England wants peace and trade. It is the tragedy of Europe that up to the present these objects have been mutually exclusive...