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Word: shake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing 'chutes, there was a terrific blast overhead, then a rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Show | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

Though it raised lay doubts elsewhere, last week's earthquake did not shake the Hoover board out of its conviction that a Nicaraguan canal would be safe-just as safe as Panama. Anticipating much the same argument against the project that Senator Hanna had used, Sydney Bacon Williamson, the board's chief civilian engineer, cited these facts: 1) last week's earthquake was 60 mi. from the proposed canal route; 2) Panama in the last 35 years has had 16 earthquakes to Nicaragua's 14; 3) an extraordinarily severe earthquake is required to damage the massive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Volcano; Earthquake | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

There are three ingredients in this fruit cocktail. Take the author of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and her husband, John Emerson, add two parts for movie stars, and mix with a translated Hungarian short story. Throw in a catchy title for seasoning. Shake well before presenting. The audience will add the dash of bitters...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

...With a shake of his poor little head, he replied...

Author: By D. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/1/1931 | See Source »

...traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Clan Hangs | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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