Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Sealock arrived in Omaha tingling with conviction that the future of higher education lay with municipal institutions. His first contribution to that future was to shake out of the faculty a quantity of Presbyterian preachers. His second was to replace them with young Ph.D.'s. The new instructors, with their liberal leanings, proved Dr. Seacock's undoing. Few months ago word got out that he was at odds with fully half the regents, including their Chairman James Edward Davidson...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
Southwestern Nebraska is a country full of weather. In the winter it freezes, in the summer, fries. Its gulch-pocked plateaus are the scene of alternate blizzards, droughts, tornadoes, dust storms, cloudbursts. Every once in a while a Nebraskan loses his patience, goes outside to shake his fist at God. Last week there was cause aplenty for fist-shaking...
...knockers for this boat which in spite of Coach Whiteside's reticence about relative Varsity standing looks more like a second than a first boat if for no other reason than that Captain Sam Drury is not in it. All seatings are announced as very insecure with another shake-up promising to result from the race today if not before...
...were conducted not by Manny Rosenbaum but by a vigorous, grey-thatched Irishman named Louis T. Sayre, secretary of the company and its trustee in bankruptcy. Trustee Sayre stopped Manny Rosenbaum's salary last week and it was reported that Rosenbaum Grain Corp. was due for a big shake-up in personnel...