Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest papers, the Manchester Union and Leader. Two Landon men al o ran. In Dallas, Tex., Candidate Knox declared: "At the present time the contest lies between Governor Landon of Kansas and me. We are much alike in viewpoint on issues and agreed that no factional quarrels shall shake party harmony...
...those who prophesied the U.S.S.R. was heading for bankruptcy and ruin, the Webbs say: After almost 20 years it is still here, and even its eagerest enemies admit that it is strengthening its hold. And will it spread? Again the Webbs say: It will. How? When? Where? They shake their old heads and do not answer...
Recognizing the need of the times for simplicity and integration, President Conant intends to shake the departmental trees until many of the vestigial courses fall out. Not only will courses be reduced in number, but the material taught within them will be condensed. This admittance of the value of concentrated effort should result in such long-needed reforms as the reorganization of concentration in the field of history. The dangers of over-departmentalization are as old as they are poignant, but President Conant's allusion to the strings attached by budgetary allocations does much to clarify the situation...
...horrid petition is circulating in your midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...
...help to form it, that it does not contribute, if not financial, which is most likely, at least some sort of "other" support to it? No wonder, with such arrant lawbreakers in charge, that the elevator boys in the Center did not rise in their might and shake their shackles...