Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples. "Ding dong," goes the first faint and shaken bell; swallows leap out of the belfry. "Ding, dong," peals the carillon, its notes dropping into the air like stones into water...
...others were missing from practice yesterday, Maher and Coady. Both were slightly shaken up by the Bear, but will surely join Captain Greenough's ranks...
...backfield of Tarnowsky, Sullivan. MacKinnon, Purdy, and Pattison, with Thomas at goal has done praiseworthy work in the past games, and will probably remain fixed for the rest of the season. But the forwards have shown a total inability to score and as a result have been well shaken up. Dorman, who has played on the left wing so far, will start at center, in place of Trevvett, who has been shifted to inside left. Ferdyee goes from inside left to outside right, Crooks from outside to inside right, and Small will take care of the left...
...successfully. Haughton's strategy, therefore, always aimed at the preservation of the quarterback's mental clarity. He preferred a lightweight whose brain was functioning every second to a big powerful man who was a good ball carrier, and so more easily tempted to run the risk of being badly shaken...
...lean toward rationalism with a German accent. Harvard freshmen may still take the naive attitude of "Here I am. Educate me if you can." But before many months' residence they come to question that attitude. False opinions of education as a "pouring-in process" are likely to be rudely shaken by the November examinations. And by the Mid-Year period they must have begun to see that education--at least the Harvard brand of it--tries to stimulate active, critical research for truth. To fail to see it is to run serious danger of terminating one's academic career...