Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Byrd. Tom, Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tom and Harry went back to their respective jobs (Harry is Governor of Virginia), and their brother Dick went ahead with his ? getting men and freight shaken down, stowed and shipshape aboard the S.S. Chantier as she steamed from the pier. The freight was particularly troublesome, and the ship paused overnight off Staten Island before heading across the ocean for Tromso, Norway, where Dick ? Commander Richard E. Byrd ? will lay in whatever supplies or equipment he still needs for his flights next month...
Cliff. A cliff (unnamed) was shaken from a mountainside at a place (unstated) in the Peloponnesus by an earthquake tremor, which registered on various foreign seismographs. The detached fragments of rock struck a Greek railroad train, obliterated three coaches and many of their occupants...
...high tones, many of them, revealed all too plainly his baritone past. But on the whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took new hope, applauded him gratefully; saved its noisiest, most unrestrained approval for Maria Jeritza making as Elisabeth her last operatic appearance of the season...
...possible consequences to their aged master, the other postilions quieted the horses as soon as possible, rushed to assist the white-haired Victorian statesman from his carriage, bundled him safely into a motor, sighed with relief at the news that he seemed "none the worse for being badly shaken...
...which aid in special orientation); 2) "muscle sense" disturbance (the muscle nerves localize in space the position of the limbs, head, eyes and other parts of the body); 3) eyestrain (the patient gets dizzy looking at the ever-changing sea); 4) peripheral vagus-nerve irritation (the insides get shaken up by the complicated motion of the boat and by the minute, incessant vibration of the engines); and 5) psychic stimuli (the patient sees others kharouping and vomiting over the rail and gets sick). All influence to varying degrees the maelstrom of nausea. Most nostrums hit at only...