Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alleged photograph of a single disc taken by Californian coast guardsman Frank Ryman, which would shake the jet stream hypothesis, might well turn out to be a flaw in the lens upon critical examination, Professor Mather ventured...
Nobody thought that the box-office slump was going to shake the industry. Most studios were in the best financial position they had ever known. Last year they showed a total net profit of $125 million. This year, if box office held only "sensational," they might do $100 million. And by turning choosy again, U.S. moviegoers stood to gain. They would frighten Hollywood into making better pictures...
Through the dingy corridors of City Hall, the big news typhooned. Within half an hour, hundreds of jobholders dutifully swirled into Boss Hague's office to wish him luck. They also took care to shake hands heartily with Heir Apparent Eggers. By noon, 2,000 citizens overflowed into the streets. All city business was suspended...
McCormick starts each year with a baronial New Year's reception at the office. It is a command performance: his employees file past their morning-coated boss (a police dog mounts guard at his side), shake his hand, then pass on to the cigars and the punch bowl. Watching the show, his cousin, the late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, once drily observed: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
...step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood's acre, and cutting deeper into its take in Britain. This would certainly shake Hollywood, as well as make Rank's movies a big source of dollar exchange in Britain. It might encourage the Socialists to nationalize the industry. If that happened, then Hollywood might find that its marriage was turning out to be an affair with Bluebeard...