Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last week stockholders of the Dardelet Threadlock Corp. were receiving rights to subscribe to more stock for $100 a share. Small was the chance that any stockholder would forfeit his privilege, for from many pages of formulae, Commandant Dardelet succeeded in creating a bolt that will not shake loose...
...Dardelet Threadlock is that a nut remains fixed when its friction on a bolt is greater than its friction against the face of the part that is being clamped. By mathematically designed taperings on the thread, the Dardelet nut and bolt become wedged into one mass, cannot possibly shake loose, yet are uninjured when separated. Separation is accomplished easily with a wrench...
...Harvard Freshman baseball nine will also see action today, when the strong Tufts Freshman team invades Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. After a losing streak of three poorly played games, it is hoped that the first year men will shake off the lethargy and show signs of being an efficient outfit...
Should doting but fixation-fearing parents kiss their babies by a stop watch? Should a father merely shake hands with his moppet before retiring? Is it bad for a child to like his nurse? In the current Parents' Magazine, Bertrand Russell, famed British philosopher, takes it upon himself to refute some new-fangled ideas about parenthood, to disseminate a few commonsense tenets of his own. Excerpts from his treatise, entitled: "Are Parents Bad for Children...
Disguised in a coffee-coloured suit and a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, the Vagabond will emerge from his Lowell House construction shake this morning for the first time in several days. Having obtained a Boston censorship list, he has been busily lining his corrugated iron den with the best of modern and classical authors in preparation for the Reading Period. However, his eager Public need not be alarmed; for, every other evening if the weather is good, he will furtively make his way through the dark Spring twilight, sidle along empty streets and longingly peer into dormitories crammed with...