Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Broad St., a truck containing 800,000 dollars got stuck in the snow. It was immediately surrounded by an expectant crowd, whose anticipations were rudely shaken where a strong guard was placed over the treasure...
...first race the undergraduates caught the water first at the word, and drew ahead about a length, which they managed to keep until the finish. The graduates, however were not satisfied as they were only just getting shaken together, so it was proposed to race back again to the starting point...
...said about the work of the crew as a whole, except that they are rowing precisely the same stroke which succeeded so well last year, and which they have been practicing all this spring. Since leaving Cambridge, however, the men have become rather steadier, and have become more shaken together. There is not so much splashing, and the men get their work in better from their stretchers...
...this, at most of the colleges, facilities are afforded for practice, not only in fielding, but also in batting, so that when the men first take to out-door work they are already in excellent condition, and need but a few days' open-air practice to get well shaken together...
Examples of the wind-fertilized plants are Indian Corn, Poplar and Maple trees, etc. In the case of corn the so-called "silk" is the pistal, and the pollen on the "tassel" is shaken off by the wind and conveyed to the ears, thus fertilizing them. Pollen is often carried for half a mile in this...