Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Result: Thirteen mere delegates for Coolidge at the Republican Convention ?delegates which at the present prospect he won't need; Johnson hopes somewhat shaken; La Follette with unexpected strength in view of the fact that his name wasn't printed on the ballot...
General Tobin denounced the Queenstown murders which were said to have been committed in his name. The Free State government was but little shaken by the Mulcahy-Tobin disagreement...
...Moderns. Israel Zangwill, hav-ing shaken his finger at the U. S., now shakes it at the entire younger generation. This author seems bent in his new play on providing his own Book of Knowledge for the children. He teaches them what to think of psychoanalysis, Longfellow, free love, free thinking, Freud, democracy, war, Christian Science, futuristic paintings, electrons and similarly unrelated matters. It is just like having the famed Britisher visit us all over again...
...high hopes that the new American merchant marine built under the stress of war would bring back the heyday of American ocean commerce have been severely shaken by the recurrent deficits of the Shipping Board budgets. The experience of the past few years seems to prophesy all too plainly that with the passing of the famous clipper ships went forever American mercantile supremacy. Various explanations have been offered which characteristically center in an abuse of government management, but the almost obvious reason is the same that prevented the development of a merchant marine before the war--the fact that Americans...
...accidents with diphtheria serum at Concord and Bridgewater have not shaken our faith in either the efficacy or the desirability...