Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoping to shake itself out of a losing streak, the Varsity baseball team will tackle Cornell this afternoon at Ithaca. This will be the third Eastern Intercollegiate League game for the Crimson, the previous contest being a 13-2 win over Columbia and a 10-4 lose to Princeton...
Meantime the dollar was soaring in foreign exchange, the franc had another bad spell, and a near-panic occurred in South African gold shares on the Johannesburg Exchange. Not until after President Roosevelt emphatically denied the rumor a second time did the world's money-changers shake their jitters. The President said he knew of no plan to tinker with the price of gold, that all he knew about it was what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded...
...more cozening of a bribe-giving Christian by the wily infidels. "Our religion makes it impossible for us to be loyal to a non-Moslem ruler," smiled the Sheik. "You will hardly find 1,000 Moslems among the 160,000,000 under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French. Mark my words, Allah may forgive a Moslem for not praying, but Allah never forgives a Moslem who does not strive to free his brethren from non-Moslem domination...
Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...
...mounted in the shaft of the 300 h.p. Spad supplied to leading French pursuit pilots, back in September, 1918. De Turenne, my escadrille commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that he could not pull out of the dive. At the risk of falling out, Fonck threw off his safety belt in order to reach the stick mounting, pry the shell case...